Akyra: Alright, KH-Akyra! Time to... huh?
Living room: (completely empty)
PS2: (shut)
KH2 disc: (in its pocket)
Roxas: Whoa... Somebody must have kidnapped her!
Akyra: Of course! That's the only way she'll part from her KH2! (runs into computer room)
KH-Akyra: (ish typing)
Roxas: Why aren't you playing KH2?
KH-Akyra: I WAS playing it. That is, until I reached Timeless River. The music's annoying there and Sora is way too noodlie.
Akyra/Roxas: O.o

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. Or Timeless River. I only own this toothbrush that I will offer to Jafar... I don't own Jafar. O.o


"Don't I even get a hello, Lexaeus?"

The man in a familiar black robe turned and growled at the sound of his name. Unlike the other characters we've come to meet, Lexaeus had quite a dark complexion to him. His brown hair had quite a confusing flair to it; it was spiky and flowing at the exact same time. Also, because of his size, not too many people would prefer to get him angry. He could have probably crushed a truck had there been one at the time. Though, these days, he wasn't as "friendly" as he usually was. This was probably due to the fact that he was forced to take orders from a person much younger than him, the warden of the castle…

"Vexen…" Lexaeus growled, a smile forming on his face as another man robed in black with long, blonde hair appeared before him. Unlike Lexaeus, Vexen tends to have his own ideas and judgements on things. He was an impulsive scientist and loved to experiment with things.

"What's going on, Zexion? I demand an explanation," Vexen said rather loudly. A third robed man stepped into the light, his short, spiky hair glowing a blue shade from the light. Zexion was the most mysterious of them all. He keeps quiet most of the time and tends to keep his ideas for himself.

"Nice to see you too, Vexen," Zexion said rather sarcastically, "You know, it's deplorable... The Organization used to be the rope that binds us. And now it's full of kinks."

"How dare you!" Vexen interrupted.

"Let it go, Vexen," Lexaeus sighed, "Zexion, tell us. What did you detect?"

"Visitors. I picked up two scents in the castle's lowest basement. One of them was Maleficent, but-"

"Absurd!" Vexen interrupted yet again, "The witch is gone. She cannot return from the realm of darkness of her own volition."

"If you'd let me finish..." Zexion said, glaring at Vexen, "The scent belonged to a very convincing double. But I can't say much beyond that, since the would-be Maleficent is no more. Our other visitor saw to that."

"Who is it?" Lexaeus asked.

"I don't know…" Zexion confessed, "But the scent was very similar to the Superior's. Exactly similar, if I may say."

"Rubbish!" Vexen screeched.

"Fact, Vexen. Now, what shall we do?"

"Let us bide our time and see what develops…" Lexaeus finished, turning away from them to watch a simulation of Riku running down another corridor…


Sora, Donald, Goofy and Akyra followed Jafar through the corridor to the front of the palace's gates.

"Come on! Stand up and fight, you coward!" Akyra threatened, readying her staff. Jafar turned to face them, smiling evilly and bearing his yellow, unbrushed, plaque filled…alright you get the picture. He had also noticed that Aladdin was missing. The plan our adventurers had cooked up was coming along well.

"What's this? Has Aladdin given up on his precious Jasmine already? Well, I'm not going to waste a wish on the likes of you four. I'll deal with you myself!"

"Aladdin! Now!" Sora called. Appearing out of nowhere, Aladdin jumped a couple of stone steps and charged at Jafar, sword at hand.

"What? You! Genie, seize him!" Jafar ordered.

"Al, buddy! Forgive me!" Genie yelled. He covered his eyes with his giant, blue arm and smacked Aladdin away from Jafar, whimpering in the process.

"Oof… You fell for it, Jafar!" Aladdin shouted in triumph.

"What do you mean?" Jafar asked wickedly, staring wide-eyed at him.

"He means that you just blew your second wish! Only one left!" Sora explained with a smile.

"Go ahead, use it to win Jasmine's heart. You'll still have us to deal with!" Aladdin finished.

"Oh, NOW I get it. Al, you are so clever!" Genie cheered. But Jafar was far from cheery. He approached Aladdin, every step he took making him angrier and angrier.

"Well, well. The cunning of a rat. But, unfortunately, you can't see beyond the cheese. Your little ploy changes nothing! I can crush you once and for all AND make Jasmine my own! Genie! My last wish! Transform me into an all-powerful genie!"

All of a sudden, the palace around them seemed to melt away into a pit of boiling lava, courtesy of Jafar-Genie.

"Come on, guys! We're needed!" Akyra shouted over the noise, grabbing Donald's feathery hand and following Goofy, who was making his way towards Sora. It wouldn't have mattered if they managed to reach him or not because once they turn into cards, they automatically appear in Sora's deck, signalling the beginning of a new battle.


"Well, I guess that takes care of that!" Donald said, dusting his feathers.

"Yep!" Sora agreed, "Jasmine's saved and we got the lamp back, too! Hey, Aladdin, don't you still have one wish left?"

"He sure does," Genie said, zooming towards the group, "Time for me to make a prince outta this guy! 'Course, I'd like to be free. But like they always say, genies can't be choosers. You're probably miffed about that whole puppet-of-Jafar thing, anyway. Go on, Al. Wish for what's really in your heart. Be a prince. Get the girl."

At first, no one could really tell what Aladdin was thinking. His expression was so blank, so empty that you could easily confuse him for a Nobody. That is, if our team actually knew what Nobodies were. Finally, he picked up the lamp and pointed it to the Genie.

"Genie," he said, "I wish for your freedom!"

"But Al…!" Genie said, surprised by his decision.

"Now no one like Jafar can use you for evil again. Genie, you're free!" The smoke that connected Genie to the lamp instantly disappeared as the gold cuffs around his wrists broke apart. The lamp also appeared to lose its shine.

"Al, I'll never forget this. But what about Jasmine? What are you going to do?"

"I was wrong, Genie," Aladdin confessed, "If I used your help to win Jasmine...I'd be no better than Jafar. Jasmine means the world to me. I want to show her the real me."

"That's the spirit!" Sora said.

"Thanks, Sora," Aladdin said, turning around to face the four of them, "And good luck!"

"What for?" Akyra asked.

"I was ready to give up back there, but then Sora said some things to keep me going. That's when it hit me. You must be looking for someone you care about, too."

"Yeah…" Sora sighed, his mind filling with old thoughts.

"Listen, Genie…" Aladdin started but was interrupted by Genie.

"Say no more, little pal! I know JUST what you're thinking. Here you go, Sora!" He drew a card from the left over smoke spewing out of his lamp and handed it to Sora. It had a picture of the Genie on it.

"Whenever you need me, just call. That okay with you, Al?"

"Of course it is!" Aladdin said.

"Are you sure?" Sora asked, his eyes fixed on his new battle card.

"Anytime at all. Hey, without you guys, I might never have been able to ditch that lamp! And I think Aladdin will be fine on his own now." Genie said, ruffling Aladdin's hair.

"Wow, thanks a lot!" Sora said happily, taking another look at his card.

"Let's hope both our wishes come true, then. Take care, Sora!" After having said their goodbyes, the four of them headed towards the door they came in from, Sora's new card shining like a diamond in the midday sun…


It was time to hunt around for the next set of staircases once the team made it out of the door to Agrabah. But something was troubling Goofy.

"What is it, Goofy?" Donald asked in concern.

"It's that castle Akyra and I mentioned earlier. I'm sure we didn't make it up. If we did, then we wouldn't have been talking about the same thing. Anyways, that was the castle where Sora used the Keyblade to free Kairi's heart. Then he disappeared for a while, remember? I'll never forget how worried I was," he confessed.

"Oh yeah! When I turned into a Heartless! Wait… That happened in… a castle?" Sora asked, confused.

"You forgot? Well, I remember it perfectly!" Donald said. He was obviously lying.

"You do?" Akyra asked, "Well then, you'll agree with me that the castle was called Castle Hamburger, right?"

"No, that's a crazy name for a castle…" Donald answered.

"Okay, then what was it REALLY called?" she asked with a devious smile.

"Easy! It was… Hey, Jiminy. You wrote down everything that happened in your journal, right?" Donald asked as he poked the top of his hat. Jiminy, who had been hiding up there, sprung up when he heard his name.

"Every letter! I finished off the first volume right before we got to this castle. Let's see if I can find the old book..." he said as he searched for it. Luckily, he remembered perfectly where he had left it. But, if he had it or lost it, it wouldn't have made any difference…

"Ah, here it is! Let's have a look... Th-This isn't possible!" Jiminy gasped, "All the entries have vanished! Every page, blank!"

"What?" Donald quacked, snatching the book from his head and flipping the pages as the three of them closed in on him to get a better look. Jiminy was right. Every page was as empty as Leon's usual facial expressions and every page as white as snow.

"How could this happen!" Jiminy moaned, "I take such good care of all my journals! All that hard work… gone…"

"What kind of castle is this?" Sora asked as he gazed around the pearly white hallway.

None of them had the slightest idea about what had happened to Jiminy's journal. Could it be the work of Heartless? No, they wiped out every one that came close to them. So then what could explain this strange incident? Akyra thought of this as she followed the rest of them in silence down the hallway. Every time they seemed to grasp an answer for a question of theirs, it either ends up being inaccurate or slips from their fingers before they get a chance to catch it. For example, you try to explain the picture of a blonde-haired girl drawing in her notebook that suddenly appeared in Akyra's mind. Hang on…

"Huh?" Akyra said, whirling around. There was nobody behind her. Not a soul was around except for Sora, Donald and Goofy walking up front. But, she was so sure that she had seen that girl! She was drawing something in her notebook!

"Akyra, are you coming?" Sora called.

"Yeah… yeah, I'm coming…" Taking one last look behind her, she began running towards Sora, her mind filled with questions…


"Something funny's going on... How could everything Jiminy wrote vanish like that?" Donald wondered aloud.

"Maybe it's not just stuff we write down," Sora explained, "Akyra and Goofy said we've been to some other castle. But I don't remember it at all. None of us really do. Maybe...Maybe we don't remember because those memories are gone."

"Gone…?" Akyra sighed.

"Don't be ridiculous!" Donald retorted.

"Wait! Remember what that guy in the black hood said? "In this place, to find is to lose and to lose is to find." He was talking about memories!" Jiminy said.

"So if we keep going, we'll lose our memories... No wonder they call it Castle Oblivion." Sora said, casually placing his hands behind his head.

"So...the higher we go, the more we forget?" Donald asked in a shaky tone, "What if we forget everything and can't get it back?"

"I'd forget Riku and Kairi too…" Sora sighed.

"Maybe we should turn back," Donald suggested.

"Hey, you guys are missing the point!" Akyra intervened, "He said "In this place, to find is to lose and to lose is to find". We'll lose our memories but… we'll find something else once we lose them…"

"We'll find something else?" Sora asked himself, deep in thought.

"Even if we do find something, we would have still lost our memories," Donald said.

"Don't worry! We might forget where we've been or what we saw, but we won't forget our friends!" Goofy assure them.

"What makes you so sure?" Donald asked.

"Sora, when you turned into a Heartless, did you forget about us?"

"Of course not!" Sora yelled almost instantly, "I'd never forget you guys."

"Well, see, there ya go! No matter what happens, you won't forget your friends," Goofy concluded with a huge smile.

"Yeah... You're right. Thanks, Goofy."

"I guess there's nothing to be scared of after all. So let's go!" Donald said with a smile. No sooner had they taken a few steps when Akyra spoke up:

"Say, Donald… Back when Sora was a Heartless, who was the one who tried to clobber him?"

"I had good reason!" Donald retorted, "YOU wanted to keep a Heartless as a pet!"

"If I hadn't wanted to keep it as a pet, you would have sliced him to smithereens," Akyra answered back with a huge grin.

"THAT's what you should be forgetting!"

Sora, Akyra and Goofy erupted in a frenzy of laughs and sniggers as Donald, grumbling, picked a card from Sora's deck and placed it above his head, impatiently waiting to enter the new world…


KH-Akyra: I shall start the Coliseum chappie right now! XD
Akyra: This is great! She'll keep writing chappies!
Roxas: But she'll stop playing KH2.
Akyra: So?
Roxas: Remember how she gets spastic by lack of information?
Akyra: O.o KH-Akyra... You must play KH2 now...
KH-Akyra: No way! I'm typing!
Akyra: (drags me to living room)
KH-Akyra: This is insane! First you want me to type then you want me to play! WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME? LEMME GO! LEMME GO!