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Discalimer - I don't own Kingdom Hearts or either of it's sequels. If I did, it would be rated T.
4. First Flight.
The fivesome of keybladers walked in silence to the newly remodled gummi ship. It was noticeably larger. When they got inside, Kairi saw that another room had been added to the rear. There were two more beds, one on the left and one on the right. A comfy-looking purple chair had been added just before the head of the bed on the left.
"Ship sweet ship," Sora sighed, flopping down on the bed in the first room. Riku got into the captain's chair.
"I guess I'll drive," he said, pushing a large red button. The engine started with a roar.
"Well... this is different," Kairi blurted out. Darran resumed to look at her with a penetrating gaze.
"You said it," Sora and Darran said in unison. The two boys suddenly locked gazes fiercely. To Kairi, it looked like they were trying to outdo each other at some unknown male sport.
"Where to first?" Riku asked from the front.
"Oh, you know where we should go? Wonderland! I haven't been there since my first adventure!" Sora suggested enthusiastically. He had stopped glaring at Darran, who merely shrugged and returned his gaze to Kairi.
"I'll go tell Riku," Lifelle announced quietly. She had been looking extremely shy and out-of-place since they got on the gummi ship. She strode to the shotgun seat and began talking with Riku, who looked a little jumpy.
"Um... So, Darran, you and Lifelle are brother and sister?" Kairi asked politely. Darran's gaze became less probing, and amusement crept into his eyes.
"We're twins, actually."
"Twins?" Sora repeated skeptically, "You're a boy and girl. And you don't look very much alike."
"Fraternal twins," Darran retorted cooly. Sora tried to hide his confusement... badly. Kairi giggled.
"We're here," Lifelle announced from the front. The three keybladers stood up and called their keyblades in a solitary flash of white light.
By the time the fivesome got out of he ship, it was very crowded in the small, cramped room.
"I'm late! I'm late! Oh no, oh no, oh no!! I can't be late!" Came a frantic, throaty voice. Kairi barely managed to jump out of the way when a small, rotund white rabbit in a shirt and glasses bounded by, peering through a large golden stopwatch.
"What was that?" Kairi asked, openmouthed. Sora smiled.
"That's the rabbit. He has... time-management problems," he explained, still grinning. Kairi felt the corners fo her mouth perk upward in a smirk; she remembered the creature Sora often referred to as the "loud furry headache" from Wonderland.
"Oh! Sora!" called a female voice. Kairi turned around, once again, to see someone new bounding towards the group. Darran stepped aside with a smirk on his face to let the small girl, who Kairi presumed was Alice, run into Sora and give him a back-crushing hug.
"Hey, Alice. How is everything? Is the queen beinga meanie?" Sora asked, ruffling the little girl's golden locks. She laughed.
"She calmed down a bit after she realized I wasn't the one who tried to steal her heart. But then again, she's still... the queen."
Sora chuckled. "Alice, there're some people I want you to meet. This is Riku," he gestured to the silver haired keyblader, who was grinning ear to ear, "Darran and Lifelle, our new friends," the brother and sister now stood next to each other. They bowed and curtsied respectively,"And this is my friend Kairi," Sora finished, his gaze lingering on Kairi.
"It's very nice to meet you. Sora told me all about you. He said you were very brave," she added, smiling sweetly. Alice curtsied.
"It's so nice to meet you all, but I'm afraid I have to go. The rabbit's been a little... tied up lately," Alice admitted. She and Sora exchanged a weary glance and she ran after the stressed-out animal.
Riku, Sora, and Kairi led the way through the four decreasing doors into the Bizarre Room. Darran and Lifelle followed quietly, both clutching their keyblades. The five keybladers were scrunched in the miniscule room for about half a minute before Darran finally said, "Any reason we're huge?"
"I was wondering when someone would ask that," Sora said, grinning. He picked up a bottle with an orange label took a huge gulp. The entire part shrunk down... too much.
"This is stupid," Riku complained. Lifelle smirked.
"Follow me," Sora said, waving a gloved hand. Kairi, Riku, Lifelle, and finally Darran followed him through a door leading to what could only be the queen's court. Something caught Kairi's eye as she left.
"Ummm... Sora?" She whispered in his ear.
"Yeah?"
"Was that doorknob... snoring?"
Sora grinned. "He needs his beauty sleep."
"Mmhmm... doorknob... beauty sleep... makes perfect sense."
The two started chuckling, but were soon silenced by Darran.
"Ummm... look," he said, pointing. Sora and Kairi took their eyes off one another and saw complete chaos.
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Ooooooooooouuuuuu! Cliffhanger! xD sings the "I-know-what-happens-next-song
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