[A/N: I really put Puck in a bad situation in this chapter. I realize that a lot of this chapter didn't exactly take place inside Monstro, but in the game all you do really is look for Pinocchio and fight the Parasite Cage. Also tomorrow's chapter will be late since I have class and need to re-watch the movie the chapter is based on. Reviews are appreciated. Enjoy the chapter!]

Puck was still pulling on Juliet as they entered the world and more or less pushed her down in front of Erik. "Something's wrong with her master you need to fix her again."

Erik got up and walked over to Juliet where he crouched down beside her. "What's the matter this time? I heard Chiyo was telling you some awful things."

"You've been lying to me haven't you?"

"Me lie to you? Where ever did you get that idea?"

"Chiyo told me. What else have you lied to me about?"

"I can assure you I haven't been lying to you."

"Then why would Chiyo tell me all those things?"

"Well, Chiyo is a very jealous kind of woman. She thought I was giving you too much of my attention so she thought she could run you off."

Juliet was starting to feel a little better. Of course Erik hadn't been lying. She'd been silly to believe what Chiyo had said. "Of course…..what was I thinking?"

"Well if you're feeling better you'll be going onto Monstro next. There's no heart and no body to corrupt, but there's someone there I think you'd find most interesting." Erik went to stand up when he felt Juliet throw her arms around his neck. He heard Puck snigger and gave him a dirty look as he gingerly patted Juliet on the back. "All right you've held onto me now go find Monstro." Still she wasn't letting go so he unhooked her arms from his neck.

As Puck and Juliet were walking back out of the alcove Antonia made her appearance. "Sorry, sorry I was with Carissa. Did I miss anything?"

"Nothing major besides Juliet having a break down and nearly strangling Erik with her death grip. I knew he was uncomfortable around girls, but I didn't know it was that bad."

"Well you remember all those girls from before right? He wouldn't give them the time of day either. So where are we headed next?"

"Monstro."

"You know being in a whale's gut is the exact opposite of what I planned on doing today."

Juliet was completely ignoring them. She had no desire to inside a whale, but Erik had said there'd be someone interesting there so she'd brave Puck and Antonia's company to see who this person was.

The inside of Monstro was spongy and damp. There was a set of driftwood that led to an upper level and a ship crashed near his mouth.

Even with her dark eyes Juliet could see that someone was on the boat's deck. "I thought Erik said there was no body to corrupt here."

Puck followed her gaze and looked up at the ship. "Oh that's just Geppetto, He's Pinocchio's Father. Or made at least."

"Should I do something to him?"

"Harm an old man whose looking for his puppet son and just happened to get swallowed by a whale with a horrid temper? Yeah, go for it."

Juliet had to swim a short ways before she came to a ladder that was on the side of the ship and climbed up.

Geppetto had been talking to Clio his goldfish when he realized that Juliet was there. "Oh, I didn't know anyone else was here. Oh you poor dear Monstro must have swallowed you too."

"Not exactly…."

Geppetto looked a bit confused at this. "But how else could you get into Monstro then by him swallowing you?"

Juliet ignored him and reached out which caused Geppetto to back up.

"Do you want something?"

"Your heart." Her hand was right over his heart, but no contact had been made. She could feel her arm shaking for some reason like it didn't want to obey her.

Geppetto tried to move around her when the Keyblade blocked him. "If you want my heart take it, but please don't hurt my little boy. "

"Oh you mean Pinocchio? Don't worry about him. I'm sure someone will get to him eventually." Juliet didn't give Geppetto a chance to respond before her palm went down over his heart.

Like with O'Malley, Jane, Clayton, and Sadira there was a dark haze that came over Geppetto's eyes.

"I don't know how much help an old man is going to be, but why the hell not?" Juliet walked around the puppet maker and hopped off the edge of the boat. Up ahead she saw an opening that led to further into Monstro. "Puck, Antonia are you guys coming?"

Antonia was still staring at Geppetto who looked like he was fighting it. "Come on old man just give up. It will be easier if you do." She waited a few more seconds before she noticed that a little black and white kitten was yowling at her. She frowned at it before kicking the kitten sending it flying into the side of the boat. "I guess we'll leave the old man to his demons. Let's go Puck."

As they were joining Juliet at the entrance of the opening Puck cast one last look at Geppetto and could feel something clawing at him. It felt like guilt. Or at least what he thought was guilt.

When Juliet got into the entrance of the opening she found a very spongy warm foul smelling room. "I had no idea that the idea of a whale would smell so bad." She took a step forward feeling her foot sink into the spongy material. There was a slight elastic feeling that put a bit of a bounce in her step. "Doesn't look like there's anything too important in here."

Antonia had joined Juliet while going through the inner chambers of Monstro, but Puck was feeling a bit down. This defiantly isn't for me anymore. Since when have we go into attacking old men? And he had a son too. I really need to figure out how to get out this mess. He realized he was being left behind and picked up the pace a little. I don't even know who I could go to. Chiyo would tear me apart for being disloyal and Antonia would tell on me. I can't trust Juliet either even if she is fighting it. As he followed them into the next chamber an idea came to him. It was a good idea too. What about that girl in Neverland? She liked me she'd probably let me crash with her until all this died down. Puck was so lost in his own thoughts that he didn't realize that Antonia right was right next to him

"You look like you have something on your mind."

"I don't go away."

"Is that anyway to talk to your big sister? Tell me what's on your mind."

"Go away Antonia I don't want to talk about it." You wouldn't understand anyway since you're literally a heartless bitch.

Antonia shrugged before going to catch up with Juliet.

Juliet hadn't seen to notice that Puck was hanging back and was now in a chamber that had an elevated platform in the middle. "Is there anything in this whale besides barrels?"

"There's juices too."

"Juices?"

"Yeah, you know stomach juices."

Juliet grimaced in disgust. "That's disgusting. Well let's keep going."

"You know what would be fun?"

"What?"

"To let loose a few heartless. Maybe we'll give Monstro indigestion."

"Sure why not."

Puck was still a bit behind them and was watching Juliet and Antonia summon the heartless. Don't they have anything better to do? It would be a little too obvious if I got rid of them. He saw that they'd summoned a particularly ugly heartless that looked like its whole body was a cage with two swinging arms.

Juliet was looking it up and down. "Its ugly isn't it? But what do we call it?"

"I'd say Parasite Cage."

"Parasite Cage? Why that?"

"Well heartless are parasites and its body looks like a cage. Hence Parasite Cage."

"Yeah, I can see it."

Puck was trying to sneak past them. There had to be a reason why there were there and his guess was because Sora was there. However, before he could make his escape Juliet spotted him.

"Where are you going, Puck? Or is the Parasite Cage too ugly for you to look at?"

"Yes, that's exactly the reason. It's so ugly I think my eyes are going to melt. And I was also thinking I'd go on ahead and summon some more heartless."

"You don't need our permission to do that."

Once Puck had successfully given both Juliet and Antonia the slip he found himself in another warm foul smelling chamber. He could hear muffled footsteps and quickly darted behind a corner.

Unluckily for Akio and Clementine they'd been swallowed by Monstro for the second time. Clementine saw a shadow from around a corner and took a few steps forward. "Come out who ever you are."

Puck recognized Clementine's voice, but wasn't sure if it was safe to come out. "If I come out you promise not to do anything to me?"

"Is that you, Puck?"

"Yes, but I'm not looking for a fight I promise."

Akio and Clementine exchanged confused looks before Akio spoke up. "All right come out."

"You're probably wondering what I'm doing here."

"Causing havoc I think?"

"No, but Juliet and Antonia are. I need to find the kid with the Keyblade so I can tell him something."

Clementine still looked a bit skeptical. "We were just with Sora. You can tell us and we'll go back and tell him. And if you're lying to us Puck we are going to rain holy hell down on you."

"Point taken….anyway Juliet and Antonia summoned this heartless called the Parasite Cage. I don't know what they're going to do with it, but tell that kid to watch out for it."

It still didn't look like Akio was buying it. "Why are you trying to help us? I thought we were enemies."

"Well, I've had a change of heart."

"A change of heart?"

"Yes, I've decided I don't like being with Erik anymore."

"Why?"

"That's my business not yours. Now I think I'm going to go before Juliet and Antonia show up. You two will probably want to make yourselves scarce too."

Luckily for Puck, Juliet and Antonia had ended up Monstro's stomach; the Parasite Cage still lumbering after them. Juliet was looking around acid filled chamber wrinkling her nose at the vile stench. "Ok, Parasite Cage we need you to go look for this little puppet named Pinocchio and bring him here ok?"

It looked like the heartless had understood because it lumbered off.

Antonia was looking around half expecting Puck to show up. "Puck must be having a good time if he isn't here yet."

"Yeah, I guess so. So what now?"

"There's a second level."

It didn't take them long to navigate back through Monstro's bowels, but Puck still hadn't shown up. Antonia was following Juliet up a pile of driftwood keeping her eyes out for her brother. "I'm starting to get worried. What if he gets lost?"

"Then he'll just open up one of those portals and come back to the start?"

"I guess…"

Once they got to the outside of the upper chamber Juliet saw the white haired boy from the Destiny Islands. "So that's who Erik said would be interesting."

Riku looked back, but turned back around. "Oh, it's only you."

"Aren't you wondering what we're doing here?"

"Not particularly. I'm just looking for a puppet."

` "Don't worry about Pinocchio we sent a heartless after him."

Riku looked a bit confused at this. "Who do you work for anyway? You don't strike me as the type to go off on their own. Neither of you really."

"That's none of your business. Just keep looking for that puppet." Juliet was about to walk around Riku when she got the stinging feeling in her heart again.

You three need to come back now.

"Erik does not sound happy. I wonder what pissed him off? Oh, well it's been nice seeing you Riku, but we've got to go."

Puck had half a mind not to go, but he had a pretty good idea of what Erik would do to him if he didn't comply.

As they were walking back to the alcove Puck was hanging at the back again. He had a pretty good idea that Erik knew what he'd done and there was going to be hell to pay for it.

Erik for once wasn't looking in the pool, but he did look a bit annoyed to say the least. He turned to Juliet and Antonia first. "Do you two have any idea what Puck was doing after he left you?"

Both Juliet and Antonia shrugged before Antonia spoke up. "He said he was going to summon some more heartless."

"Well he didn't. I shouldn't be angry with the two of you it's not entirely your fault this happened."

As they were walking back out Juliet stopped for a minute. "I corrupted Geppetto's heart."

"That's nice now go keep Antonia company." Erik turned to face Puck who was trying hard to shake. "I must admit Puck I'm surprised. If any of my followers were going to be disobedient I would have thought that would be Juliet not you." He took a step forward, but Puck didn't back up. "You know if it weren't for me you would have never existed. And betrayal is how you repay my kindness?"

Normally Puck would have looked down at his feet when his master was so obviously enraged. "You think you're kind? I wouldn't say corrupting a Keyblade wielder's heart is kindness. If you really

wanted her on our side you could have always asked. But asking isn't really your style is it? You've always been someone who takes what they want regardless of what's in your way."

Erik still looked calm and composed, but his hands were clenched into fists. "You know very well that Juliet would have never come willingly. Wait; is this attitude because you don't like how I treat Juliet?"

"No, this attitude is because I want out of this bullshit plan of yours or Xehanort's or whoever's plan it is." Puck suddenly clapped his hands over his mouth. He should not have said that.

"Really? You want out? Well you're not getting out. You're my creation and you will do what I say. And when I get sick of you I'll destroy you. And I know you don 't want that so if you're smart you'll keep me happy or you'll be gone just like that."

Puck felt a shiver go up his spine when Erik snapped his fingers. "Yeah….whatever you say…"

"Good, we have an understanding. Go catch up with Juliet and Antonia you're going to Space Port next."