A little romance ensues? Oh la la. =) Perhaps I shouldn't put a little authors note before and after every chapter. I just feel like it's necessary. Let's you all know I like to talk to you. Or just that I talk too much...


Apparently, as Sora and I lay on the roof, I had fallen asleep. I awoke when Sora sat up, keeping my body in his arms as he did so, and I guess trying not to wake me. Obviously didn't work.

"How long have we been out here?"

"I'm not sure." He sounded very surprised that he didn't know.

"Did you fall asleep too?"

"No... I got lost in watching you sleep."

Let's just say I've never found myself capable of really blushing before, but I'm sure being animated, it actually shows.

"We should probably go get Donald and Goofy." I said very softly, standing.

"Okay." He replied just as quietly, but didn't move. I stared at him, wondering why he agreed, but didn't act on his agreement. It confused, and kind of annoyed. He was staring elsewhere for a while before standing. Turning to me, he smiled very, very, slightly, kissed me gently on the cheek, sauntered to the edge of the roof, and jumped. The only thing I could do was stand in shock for a second, and then follow him, back into the third district. Perfect timing. We ran into Riku, who of course Donald managed to piss off in five seconds. Soon enough we found the keyhole for Traverse Town, but that effing Guard Armor was back... or Opposite Armor though I can't find a huge difference. Still annoying, still pretty easy to take down, just a waste of time...

Obviously that visit was on my mind for a while, and yet I was able to be distracted again so soon. Agrabah equals aggravating and annoying. Yeah, I'm an alliteration freak on occasion. Seriously though... My sister and me used to love the Aladdin movies (notice how I'll love any Disney movie given the chance?), but a lot about that world gets frustrating. You'd think flying on carpet would be cool, but not with mass amounts of sand in the air and below you, in addition to the trip leading to a creepy cave of doom. Then there's that obnoxious bird, and having to actually fight a giant genie Jafar. It will all never be the same for me...

Having found a missing page at that point, we went back to Traverse Town and "discovered" the Hundred Acre Woods. So now the visits back to Traverse Town often included solo trips for Sora into the book, and jeez was that boring. I got to spend quality time with Donald and Goofy. Not exciting I can truthfully say, and a bit exasperating. Donald likes to argue, and since I like to argue too, there was a lot that we just randomly argued about. Sadly, I think Goofy's scared of me. But when you put Donald and me together, I can't blame him. At least I got frustration out when I needed to.

On a more interesting scale, after the first time sitting around being bored, we were eaten by a whale. Monstro! Boy was it fun to be inside a whale! Well, not really, of course. As soon as we got there the chase after Pinocchio was on, as well as after Riku. It was confusing, as it always has been, to navigate through all his organs. Stupid chambers 1-6... But I enjoyed not having to swim through his saliva at the few moments we did, not to mention stomach acid. My wings proved useful once more, but how could they not? Though Riku was testing everyone's nerves, including mine, we moved on once we had Pinocchio.

When I first played Kingdom Hearts, and found out about Halloween Town, I was actually somewhat scared to death. As a kid, the Nightmare Before Christmas really haunted me for some reason. Halloween's cool and all, and I can dig the doom and gloom, but not to this extreme of creepy Heartless and ghosts with no escape. Oh, and the creepy two-headed, er, faced, guy. Ew. So when I played the game, I tried to get out of there as soon as possible. I tried to do so while actually in the game too. Thinking about it after the fact, Sora was fairly concerned over me and my spastic antics to get us out of there, which wasn't a bad thing. And then there's the fact of costumes. I always loved Sora's, but mine rocked. Think, werewolf! Or just at least anthro-like... A little less hairy thankfully. It was great. A tail, ears, claws, sharp teeth, and my wings still appeared when necessary. So the fact that I was basically one of my favorite animals, in one of my favorite games, was the only thing that kept me from not waiting in the Gummi ship. So, I pulled through okay. Until that is we had to fight Oogie Boogie. He has always bcreeped me out. So I had a nervous breakdown when I saw him, and he took advantage of this. For the first time, I had been the damn damsel in distress. I'm not fond of that role, but it worked out okay since once more, Sora was fawning over me. I really had no right to complain but... the bugs... ew, the bugs...

Post the nightmare that is before Christmas, our next stop cheered me up greatly and I was in real high spirits by being below sea level. Atlantica! So, yes, The Little Mermaid was another favorite movie of mine, but aside from that, swimming has always been a good thing for me, and it was easier to move myself rather than use a controller. And once more, I got an appearance change just as everyone else. I was like... a sort of eel. It was admittedly cool.

"There's something weird about them..." I laughed a little at Flounder's obvious point, Donald being upside, Goofy rolling around and Sora trying to control his tail.

"Eh heh heh, uh... What do you mean?" Watching Sora try to cover for us was just a smidgen too much for me and I was, as was happening a lot lately, in a fit of giggles.

Yeah I'll admit, Ursula scared me as a kid too, but I had more fun taking her on, although in her giant form, I had a flashback of Chernabog. It helped to have tactics from actually playing the game. After locking Atlantica in Ariel's Grotto, I was pretty convinced Ariel would break into song and dance, er, swim, at any moment, but I'm glad she didn't. I convinced the party to hang around for just a little while, and then dashed off to explore on my own.

Eventually I was in a bit of open water, and tried to stay at the bottom of the ocean, sitting behind a rock.

"I wonder why the villains don't need Ariel... she's an actual princess, unlike Alice. Do they have something against mermaids or does that just make everything more difficult in bringing her to Hallow Bastion?"

Occasionally I liked to talk to myself when given the chance, and this had been bothering me for a while. Thankfully I shut up just before I found I wasn't on my own anymore.

"Bria?" I heard Sora's voice on the opposite side of the large rock. I still liked the thought of being alone with him, but I was a little freaked now about awkwardness. You don't just kiss someone, on the cheek or anywhere, for nothing. Or at least I would hope not...

"Over here." I stuck a hand up above the rock and wiggled my fingers.

I heard slightly, his dolphin tail swishing about. It was then that I realized, being here, or in any of these worlds, would have been way less enjoyable if there was background music, as there is in the game. It would get so very annoying... Just a random thought...

"Why do you want to stay so badly? We have to keep going." Sora questioned, while floating in front of me.

"I like the water. And I've never been scuba diving or anything. This tops all that either way."

"We can come back... we have to find Riku, and Kairi, and the King."

"No, I might not necessarily get to come back. But we will. Find them, that is..." I assured him.

"Come on." He stuck out his hand, and I just looked at him.

"Are you going to make me drag you back?"

"Maybe. I wouldn't try it though. I'm an eel now. I can shock you." But he didn't seem "shocked" by this idea.

"If you could, you would have been doing that to destroy Heartless this whole time."

I gaped at him.

"I thought I was the only one who had been using my brain around here." I then laughed.

"That's it. You're leaving."

I folded my arms in front of me and turned my head away. I'd been able to let my childish side out a lot with him. But he did just as he said he would. Putting one arm around my waist, he held on tightly as I struggled against him. I gave in not long before we reached the palace, and saying goodbye, we got back on the Gummi ship, and headed out once more.


Somewhat humourous, ne? And so the story progresses....