"Then, I guess we'll be gone for a while," Holly said. "The king gets grumpy when he doesn't have enough sugar."
"The king?" Kairi questioned. "Why do you call him that?"
"Because he told us to," Jim replied. "Now, let's get going!"
"Okay!" Sora shouted out, running for the door before anyone else.
"Sora," Kairi stopped, "Aren't you going to say goodbye to Riku?"
"No," Sora said, turning to look at his moaning friend. "It's his own fault. Everyone knows you aren't supposed to eat that much candy all at once. Besides, he ate all my birthday candy, and this is payback!!!"
Without any further arguments, Sora, Kairi, Jim, Sam, and Holly began their adventure to search for enough candy to fill up Jeff the Teddy Bear's throne room. They hadn't even made it off the castle grounds before Sora stopped short.
"Hey, Kairi," he began, "where are Donald and Goofy?"
"Haha!" Goofy snorted in laughter. "There's a cuddly teddy bear in the king's throne room!"
"Yeah!" Donald joined, over his spell of anger. "And King Mickey and the others are locked in the fridge, filled with stuffing!!!"
"HAHAHA!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Doncha think we should do something, Donald?"
"Not yet . . . vacation's not over."
"I don't know," Kairi answered. "Maybe they're still on the island. Anyway, why do you care?"
"I don't. Just wondering . . . "
"Well, then, let's keep moving."
The party of five began asking around for any signs of candy, but they could only find some for sale at the markets. The problem with that was that no one had any money with them. Well, Sora found 3 munny in his pocket, but that could only buy them a tootsie roll.
"This is stupid!" Sora bellowed out in the middle of the street. "How are we supposed to get all that candy!?!"
"We'll find a way, Sora," Jim reassured.
"Yeah? Well . . . I give up!"
"Come on, Sora," Kairi encouraged. "You've never given up that easy before!"
"But I want to go home and watch TV! I just got back to the islands! I need to catch up on all the shows I missed!!!"
"Sora . . ." Kairi began.
"WHAT?!?"
"You complain too much."
"Fine! Ya know what!?! I'll prove you wrong! I won't complain the rest of the day! HAHA! Take that, Kairi!"
"Then, we're still searching for candy?"
"Yeah!!! Haha! Bet you weren't expecting that!"
"Oh, Sora . . ." Kairi sighed.
"Hey, guess what, everyone?" Sam suddenly spoke out. He was standing over by a TV in a nearby shop, watching intently.
"What? What? WHAT?" Sora exclaimed.
"You just won the award for best voice acting in a video game!" Sam responded.
"Really? AWESOME!" Sora said, jumping up and down before stopping short. "Wait . . . what does that mean?"
"It's means that you aren't there to accept the award," Holly explained.
"Maybe we should all show up unexpectedly," Jim suggested. "Maybe they have candy there."
"But where is it?" Sora wondered. "What world do we go to?"
Jim's face became shadowed in a dramatic way and he lowered his eyes. Scary music began to play as he deeply spoke, "We must go to . . . AMERICA!!!"
"NOOOO!!!!" Sora shouted. "Wait . . . what's that?"
Kairi clapped her hand on her head and sighed at Sora's stupidity. "It's only the scariest place in all existence, Sora," she said.
"But we get to take our keyblades, right?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, but they have nuclear weapons," Sam broke in.
"What are nuclear weapons?"
"They're like the deadliest weapons ever!" Holly said. "In one explosion, a whole world can disappear."
"So, what do we do then?"
"We go anyway," Jim determined. "It's not like they have any reason to hurt us. We'll just go to this ceremony and accept the award and search for candy. If they see that we aren't a threat, they won't blow us up."
"Okay!" Sora agreed. "That's the plan!"
Arriving in America was a freaky experience for everyone. They had gathered up a gummi ship for their travel, but when they landed, they were met with strange faces.
"I think it's this way," Jim annouced, pointing ahead of them. "Just follow me."
"Don't worry," Holly said. "Jim's been here before. He's knows what he's doing."
Well, to say the least, the people walking the streets weren't used to armored people walking around town, let alone a kid with giant feet and an abnormal hair style, all of whom were carrying giant keys. They only normal one seemed to be Kairi. They pointed and whispered to each other, while Sora was busy picking up pieces of gum he found sticking to the sidewalk.
"What the heck are you doing?" Kairi asked him.
"This looks like candy," Sora answered. "Every little piece counts, so I'm collecting it all."
"But Sora . . . that's already been chewed on."
"AH!" Sora exclaimed, dropping his collection back on the ground and whiping his hand clean on his shorts. "Ewwww . . ."
Before long, they had at last arrived at the video game awards ceremony. But they ran into trouble with the guards at the doorway . . .
