"Jack the heartless is back, but it isn't alone. There is a man with it, a man in a black cloak!" The rag doll said looking rather alarmed.

"Oh how dreadful! Where did you see the Heartless Sally?" Jack asked

"It was in the Pumpkin Patch." The rag doll, Sally, said. Jack looked angry at this statement.

"Oh no, not MY Pumpkin Patch!" Jack's face got even angrier and in Kairi's opinion, it looked quite scary.

"Excuse me, Sally?" Riku asked keeping his voice calm. The rag doll turned to him. "What did the man in the coat look like?"

"He had his hood down, so I could see his face clearly. He had bright yellow eyes and pink hair with gray streaks in it!" Sally said trying to calm Jack down.

"Pink hair!" Lea said, his whiskers twitching. "Could it be Marluxia?" He looked at Riku with wide green eyes.

"One way to find out." Riku said, and then he turned to Jack who was pacing back and forth still looking rather angry. "We'll head to the Pumpkin Patch and stop the Heartless AND the man in black. Would you like to come and help Jack?"

"I'd love to!" The skeleton shouted as he stopped pacing to look at Riku. "I'll teach those things a lesson! How dare the show up in MY Pumpkin Patch!"

"Please be careful Jack!" Sally said as Jack walked out of the building with Riku, Kairi and Lea in tow. Jack walked toward the Pumpkin Patch rather fast mumbling all the while about his Pumpkin Patch. Riku and Lea were jogging to keep up with him, while Kairi was at a near sprint. As they got closer to the patch, a black tentacle with a claw at the end started showed up, it darted forward attacking Kairi, but she jumped out of the way in time. She summoned her Keyblade, Destiny's Embrace and attacked the Tentaclaw. After a few hit it sank back in the ground. She looked at the rest of her group and noticed that they were also fighting the things. Jack was throwing magic spells at a few of them, while Riku had summoned his Keyblade, Way to Dawn, and kill one that had wrapped around his leg. She looked at Lea who had also summoned his Keyblade, Phoenix Wing, along with a chakram and killed one that was going for Jack.

She looked towards the Pumpkin Patch and saw a giant spider like heartless. It had four long legs covered it thorns and a pink flower bud at the top, underneath it was a coffin with the heartless emblem attached to it.

"Guys, I think I found what's spawning these things!" Kairi shouted as another one attacked her. Riku, Lea and Jack looked towards the patch and saw the heartless.

"Aww man I recognize that thing! Roxas fought it once. He complained that it was a real pain to beat!" Lea shouted towards Riku.

"Well isn't this going to be lovely." Riku muttered. The mummy wrappings on his face were starting to affect his fighting so he ripped them off, letting his shoulder length silver hair flow. "What should we do, the tentacle things don't seem to be letting up!" He looked at Kairi and Jack who were fighting multiple at a time.

"Leave us here to fight them, you and Lea go fight the heartless!" Jack shouted as he threw a fire spell at one. Riku looked at Kairi.

She looked back at him and said, "I'm fine! Go kill that thing!" Riku nodded and started for the Pumpkin Patch. Lea came running after, as they got closer, the more Tentaclaws they saw. They fought some making them disappear.

"It's pointless you know." A new voice said, "Those things will just keep coming back unless you kill the Leechgrave."

Riku and Lea looked at the new figure that showed up. He was standing next to the heartless he had called Leechgrave and he had bright yellow eyes and pink hair. "Marluxia! It is you!" Lea shouted.

"Yes it is Axel, or should I say Lea. By the way that is a very nice look for you." The pink haired man said gesturing towards Lea's outfit. "I am glad you are here traitor, I have been waiting to get my revenge for what you did at Castle Oblivion." Lea's face paled as Marluxia gave him a cruel smile. Before Lea could say something, black thorns came up from the ground encasing Lea.

"Lea!" Riku shouted as he jumped back before the thorns could get him too. Lea squirmed against the thorns, but then shouted in pain as they dug into his skin.

"Is that you little Riku, my you have grown. Don't worry, I'll make his death slow and very, very painful." Marluxia let out a loud maniacal laugh as he tightened the thorns around Lea.

"Gah!" Lea shouted "I'm not going to be taken down that easily!" Lea felt his fire coursing through his veins, begging to be released, and Lea didn't hold back. His flames engulfed Marluxia's thorns and setting himself free. He had cuts all over his body, there was a large slashes across his chest and arms. He did a quick heal spell on himself and looked up at Marluxia with a smirk on his face as if to say I told you so.

"Are you all right?" Riku asked fighting off another tentacle.

"Yeah I'm fine. If I remember right, Roxas told me that the more of these tentacle things we kill off the weaker the larger heartless gets." He said summoning his Keyblade in his right hand and a chakram in his left.

"Then let's beat the hell outta these things!" Riku said killing another one. They fought the Tentaclaws until they had defeated the majority of them around the heartless. As Riku killed one more, the heartless collapsed.

"Now Riku! Bash the hell outta that think!" Lea shouted as he began attacking it. They go a few good hits in, but before they could finish it off, it got back up and summoned more Tentaclaws. Riku jumped back before one could grab onto him, but he failed to notice that another was behind him. The Tentaclaw attacked, and literally ate Riku. What the hell? Riku thought as he travelled through a dark tube. Did that thing eat me? Before Riku could go into freak out mode, he was shot out of the tube and landed on top of the pink flower bud on top of the heartless. He looked down to make sure he still had all of his limbs, everything seemed to be safe, but he was covered in a thick slime. Aw yuck! "Lea, be careful, those things can eat you and you'll come out covered in slime!" Riku shouted as Lea dodged an attack from another Tentaclaw that had risen again.

"GAH!" Riku screamed as the giant heartless bucked him off of it. He landed on his butt in a pile of pumpkins, a few breaking and spilling their contents on Riku. "EW! Could this get any grosser!" He shouted as he was now covered in plant slime AND pumpkin guts. Riku jumped back on his feet and began to attack another Tentaclaw. With each hit, his attacks became slower, and he grew more tired. He finished off the Tentaclaw and had to fight to stay on his feet. Oh no. He thought. It must be that slime.

"Riku are you alright?" Lea shouted as he killed another Tentaclaw.

"No!" Riku shouted back. "This slime seems to take away your strength." Riku cleared his thoughts and did a quick cure spell on himself. He felt a little better. That's gunna have to do for now. He thought has he killed another Tentaclaw causing the Leechgrave to collapse. Lea noticed and threw his chakram at it repeatedly and Riku also attacked with Way to Dawn, but soon felt the effects of the slime again. Finally, Lea gave it one final hit and it disappear, a small pink heart traveled towards the sky.

"Very good you two, even with the effects of the slime Riku, you still managed to fight. It is rather impressive." Marluxia said clapping. "Well my job here is done, I would love to finish you off Lea, but I have orders. So instead I'll leave you with a parting gift." Marluxia snapped his fingers sending more thorns at Lea. Lea however, saw it coming and dodged. The thorns only managed to rip his shirt off. Lea turned towards Marluxia and stuck out his tongue. "Well that's very mature of you." Marluxia said as he disappeared in a dark cloud.

"Yeah Lea very mature…" Riku said as he collapsed. Lea ran over to him and made him drink a potion he had been carrying. Riku sat up and rubbed his eyes. "Gah, I need a shower."

"Hey, are you guys alright?" They turned to see Kairi running over to them with Jack sauntering beside her. "Riku, your covered in slime and pumpkin guts, and Lea what happened to you shirt?"

"Nothing to worry about." Lea said picking Riku up by his arm and draped it over his shoulder. Riku leaned heavily against Lea as they began walking. "As for Riku, the slime he is covered in takes away his strength. We gotta get back to Yen Sid's tower, now."

Kairi nodded and started walking towards the Gummi Ship but then stopped and said, "Wouldn't it be faster for you to take Riku through a dark corridor? By the looks of it, he needs to get that stuff off him now. I can drive the Gummi Ship back to the tower."

"I think Kairi here is right, he does look absolutely dreadful. Thank you all so much for your help, the citizens will be pleased." Jack said looking at Riku with concern.

"Yeah alright." Lea said. "You welcome, and if anything else happens here, we'll come back. I'll meet you back at the tower Princess." Lea opened a dark corridor and dragged himself and Riku through it.

"They seem like lovely people! I wish we could have talked more!" Jack said as him and Kairi started walking towards the town. "I don't suppose you'd stay and have a chat with me?" He looked down at Kairi.

She shook her head and said, "No, I'm sorry, but I should be getting back." And I am still sort of creeped out by this place. She thought.

"Of course, of course, but you three be sure to come back and visit, yes?" Jack said as they reached the Gummi Ship.

Kairi smiled at the friendly skeleton and said, "Of course we will." She waved goodbye as she jumped in the Gummi Ship and started it up. Maybe this town isn't so bad. Kairi thought as she drove the Gummi ship back towards Yen Sid's tower. And Jack seems friendly enough for being a skeleton. I guess that's just further proof you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. She landed the Gummi Ship in the back of the tower and got out. Aw my clothes changed back, I kind of liked that outfit. She thought a little sadly as she ascended the stairs to Master Yen Sid's study.

As she walked in, she noticed Lea sitting in a chair across from Yen Sid's desk telling him about the heartless attack and the man in the black coat who he called Marluxia. He was also eating a sandwich. He's eating again? Kairi thought to herself as she noticed that he had changed into a pair of red and black plaid pajama pants and was still shirtless, but had bandages across his stomach from the cuts he had received from Marluxia's thorns. Kairi couldn't help but notice that the man was very muscular, despite being so skinny.

"Hello Kairi, it's good to see you back in one piece." Master Yen Sid said as he waved his hand, conjuring another chair for Kairi to sit in. She sat in it a little tiredly.

"Where's Riku?" She asked.

"He's in his room, after cleaning up, he was pretty tuckered out so he collapsed on his bed." Lea said chuckling slightly, "Actually, sleep sounds pretty good right now." He had finished his sandwich and stood to stretch.

"No sleep for you till you finish telling me about this pink haired man." Yen Sid said.

"Aww but I told you everything I know, he had yellow eyes and silver streaks in his pink hair." Lea said sitting back down.

"But he had kept his personality from when you knew him?"

"Yeah, just like Braig did." Lea said yawning.

"Alright Lea you can go, you to Kairi, you probably want to get cleaned up and rest." Yen Sid said as he got up to retrieve a book from a shelf.

"Thank you." Kairi and Lea said in unison. Lea headed towards his bedroom, and Kairi towards the bathroom that she shared with Riku and Lea. She didn't mind sharing with the boys as long Lea broke his habit of leaving his underwear on the floor after he showered. Kairi got cleaned up and bandaged the minor scrapes she had and then walked to her room. She changed into some pajamas and laid in her bed, not really all that tired, she listened to Riku's soft snores. Her room was right between Riku and Lea's, not long after she laid down, she heard Lea's chainsaw snores and laughed at the difference between her two friends snores. Kairi closed her eyes and soon sleep overtook her as well.

A/N: Thank you all for reading, and to all of you that have added this to their favorites! Thank you Hayley, for helping me think of a name for Lea's Keyblade, and you better update your story soon! :3 Again thank you all!