L&DH: Zzzzzzz *slouched over desk*

Salem: Uh, Light? *waves hand in front of face* Light? Hey, guys, what's with her?

Tegan: Heck if I know. Just found her like this...

Angelique: It must be school, or something. That is why this chapter 'as been taking so long. *sees Dante poking Light with a stick* Mon frere! Stop that!

Dante: Non! *runs off, being chased by his sister*

Tegan: *sighs* Van, you want to do it this time?

Vanitas: L&DH doesn't own KH, FF, or the current world we're in. She owns the others, but not me, Sora, or his gang. Read and Review. Or not, i don't care. Now if you excuse me...*pulls out a sharpie marker*

A young man ran in a panicked frenzy through the forest. He was tall and painfully thin, with dark hair. His tuxedo was ripped up from encounters with trees. As he ran into one tree he took the moment to look behind him to see if his pursuer was still after him.

Sure enough, over the hill came a ghostly figure of a woman in a wedding dress. She walked slowly and gracefully after him, a beautiful sight to watch. Any other person would have been awe-struck, but the man only felt panic and fear. Crying out, he ran as fast as his legs could carry him.

He kept running until he made it to the bridge just outside his home town. Looking around, all was quiet. The man sighed in relief and turned around.

"AHHH!"

The woman stood right in front of him, appearing out of nowhere. She walked up to him, a smile on her lips as she gripped his shoulders and leaned forward. Crows and ravens circled around them like vultures.

"You may kiss the bride!" she whispered. Then everything went black as the young man fainted.

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"Where are we?"

"Hell if I know."

Tegan looked around the crowded city they were in. Buildings loomed around them in cramped alleys. There wasn't a soul in sight and it looked a bit like a ghost town.

Everything had started out okay. The gang had just come upon a world and decided to investigate. Sora had been a little eager and rushed to land, but everyone had gotten separated it seemed. The group was split in half, more or less. So now it was Tegan along with Vanitas, Kairi, and Angelique who wandered around the town.

"I hope the others are alright." Kairi worried. Angelique patted her shoulder.

"Do not worry, mon ami." She reassured. "I am sure they are fine. I only wish I knew where we were at ze moment…"

Tegan shared that statement. Their surroundings looked familiar to her, which meant that they were probably in a movie that she knew, but she couldn't figure out which one.

"Man, everything looks all creepy…" she muttered. "It's like we walked into a Tim Burton movie…"

"Who?" Vanitas asked. Tegan waved her hand lazily.

"Tim Burton. He's a film maker back on my world. I love his movies but they can get kinda weird…Huh?"

She stared off down the alley with a blank stare. They others looked in that direction and all three jaws dropped.

"What?"

Down the alley, a young woman was struggling to support a young man. The man was unconscious and deathly pale, like he had just had the daylights scared out of him. But the woman was the eye-catcher in this picture.

She was very pretty, with long wavy hair and big eyes. She wore a pretty wedding dress, but it was ripped up. And the woman's skin was blue. Oh, and maybe I should mention that she was dead.

Bones peeked out from under her dress, showing off a skeletal leg, hand, and even half her ribcage. They could hear her bones rattle even from their ten feet away.

"What in the worlds?" Kairi exclaimed. She looked over at her friends and saw Tegan smile.

"Oh my god…" Tegan's smile grew wider as she watched the dead lady. "Oh my god! I know where we are! We're in the Corpse Bride!" She rushed down the alley, leaving her friends to exchange odd glances.

"Better follow her." Vanitas remarked. "Who knows what she'll get herself into."

Tegan slowed down as she neared the Corpse Bride. "Hello, miss! Do you need some help?"

The woman was about to reply when all of a sudden a group of Heartless appeared out of nowhere, along with some Nobodies. The Corpse let out a gasp.

"Run!" Kairi shouted as she ran up. She summoned Destiny's Embrace and took a swipe at a Soldier Heartless.

As the Corpse ran to hide, Tegan summoned Saving Grace. She swung it an arc at a small group of Heartless and took them out.

"Same some for me!" Vanitas front-flipped and smashed Void Gear into a Dusk. Spinning around he kicked away a Shadow, which was flung into Kairi's way.

"Fire!" A fireball burst from her Keyblade and incinerated the Heartless.

Meanwhile Angelique stood surrounded by Soldiers and Dusks. Rolling her red eyes, she summoned her staff and changed it into a long lance.

"Katra!" An Aura Lion appeared and slashed away at the enemies. Rushing forward, the Dream Witch thrust her lance through a line of Shadows, skewering them like a shish kabob. Twirling the shaft, she flung the creatures into the happily waiting auras surrounding her Dream Eater.

Soon the enemies were demolished and the Corpse Bride came out of her hiding place.

"Goodness!" she exclaimed. "Thank you so much! What were those things?"

"Heartless and Nobodies." Kairi replied. "Are you alright?"

The Bride nodded before peering at them curiously. "Good heavens! You're all alive! I'm terribly sorry; you must have been swept up when I came down here!"

The teens exchanged looks.

"Down here?" Kairi asked. The Bride nodded.

"I'm so sorry; this is the Land of the Dead. Which kind of explains this…" She indicated to her exposed bones with a giggle. "No matter, though. I'm sure someone down at the Ball and Socket can help. Why don't you all come with me?"

She pointed down the street to the building where she had hidden. Kairi and Angelique looked a little uncertain but Tegan nodded.

"Sure! I'm Tegan by the way. These are my friends Kairi, Angelique, and Vanitas." She pointed out the appropriate person and the Corpse smiled.

"It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Emily. Well let's go then. My husband is waiting."

While they made their way to the pub, Kairi whispered to the others.

"We're in the Land of the Dead?"

Tegan nodded. "Yeah. I recognize where we are. This happens to be one of my favorite movies, The Corpse Bride. Basically it's split into to halves: The Land of the Living and the Dead. From the looks of it, we've arrived in the beginning of the movie. Emily just picked up Victor."

"So what then?" Vanitas asked grouchily. "We're still missing half our group."

Tegan looked up. "Well…First we see if they're in the pub, it's kind of like the Land's City Hall in a way, so someone is bound to know something. If not, then the boys are probably in the Land of the Living, upstairs. If that's the case, we might have a problem…"

"What?" Emily asked.

"Oh! N-nothing!" Tegan smiled nervously.

The group walked into the pub and some of the felt immediately out of place. All around were skeletons and corpses. They were pretty much the only living things there. Oh wait, Victor was alive too. Speaking of which…

"By Jove!" a gentlemanly skeleton exclaimed. "We've got a live one!"

Emily and the teens rushed to Victor, who was just waking up.

"Looks like he passed out." Vanitas remarked caustically. Tegan nudged him in the side.

"Are you alright?" Emily asked. Victor promptly freaked out as the dead crowed around him. Vanitas watched with dry amusement, chuckling to himself.

"Jumpy runt, ain't he?" he smirked as Victor had encounter with Paul, the...er...head waiter.

"How would you feel if you woke up among ze dead? And 'e is far taller than you are…" Angelique responded. She was a little freaked out by the roaches to pay much attention though.

"A toast then," a small Napoleon-ish skeleton shouted as he and a German corpse drank. "To the newlyweds!"

As cheers went around, Victor (along with teens whose names weren't Tegan) exchanged confused glances.

"Newlyweds?" Kairi asked, looking around. Emily sighed contentedly.

"Ah, in the woods you said your vows SOO perfectly." She smiled warmly at Victor and admired her wedding ring. Victor took one look at it and paled even more.

"I did?"

"He did?" Vanitas asked incredulously, earning another nudge from Tegan.

As Victor continued with the freak out, he stumbled around until he knocked into the two soldier skeletons. He tried to yank the sword out of the Napoleon, ended up with the whole package. As he swung the skeleton around he smacked Vanitas in the back of the head.

"I have a…A dwarf!" he shouted. "And I know how to use him. Now I want some questions. Now!"

"Answers, you damned idiot." Vanitas hissed, rubbing the back of his skull. "You mean ANSWERS."

"Er, right. I need answers. Where am I? What's going on here? And who are you?"

Emily looked a bit bashful. "Well, that's kind of a long story…"

"But a story it is…"

Everyone's heads turned to see a spotlight reveal a skeleton with a large lower jaw and a bowler hat. Tegan was pretty sure his name was Bonejangles.

"A tragic tale of romance, passion, and a murder most foul." He continued.

Music started up as more skeletons showed up, surrounding the gang. Vanitas was backing away, looking freaked out and disgusted, when Tegan stopped him.

"Hold it." She hissed. "They're just about to sing!"

"Even more reason to split!" Vanitas groaned.

"Hey! Give me a listen you corpses of cheer." Bonejangles sang. "Leastles of you who still got an ear. I'll tell you a story, make a skeleton cry. Of our own jubilicously lovely Corpse Bride!"

The whole pub broke out into song as skeletons started dancing. One of them grabbed Vanitas when he tried to run off, much to the ravenette's displeasure. Kairi laughed and swayed around with a pair of bone children, taking the fun in full swing. Angelique, who wasn't much for singing, hopped up on a barstool and clapped in time with the jazzy music. Tegan, who was singing along (she loved this song after all), found herself hoisted up on stage with Bonejangles.

"Lend a hand, Flesh Sista?" the skeleton asked. Tegan quirked an eyebrow at the nickname, but nodded.

"Let's kick it, Bone man."

"Well our girl was a beauty for miles around, when a mysterious stranger came into town." Bonejangles twirled around with Emily on the stage as Tegan sang. "He was plenty good lookin', but down on his cash. When our poor little baby, she fell hard and fast."

"When he daddy said no, she just couldn't cope." Tegan smirked and winked conspiratorially. "So our lovers came up with a plan to elope!"

As Kairi danced by, Tegan pulled the other red head up on stage with her. The two twirled around and sung the chorus.

"Die, die, we all pass away!

But don't get a frown, cause it's really okay!

You might try and run and you might try and pray,

But we end up the remains of the day!"

The song soon lapsed into the big instrumental bit. The musicians jammed on their instruments while everyone danced. Angelique found an old tambourine and beat along with the fellow at the piano while looking around. Skulls were flying everywhere, and it was total Jazz insanity!

Kairi and Tegan had moved their dancing to the floor where the two spied a flustered Vanitas trying to evade a bunch of dead folk. It looked like they were trying to get him to dance with them. Tegan smirked and nodded to Kairi, and the two went to work.

Dancing their way over, they swooped up Vanitas and made it back up to the stage. Kairi nodded smiled cheekily and pushed Vanitas into Tegan. The raven-haired teen was past given up, so he just let the redhead drag him around as Bonejangles took it from where they left off.

"So they conjured a plan, to meet late at night
They told not a soul, kept the whole thing tight
Now her mother's wedding dress fit like a glove
You don't need much when you're really in love"

At this part Bonejangles was all over the place. He tried to use the bottom of Tegan's coat as a shawl but got kicked by Vanitas. After he, spun a few times with Kairi.

"Except for a few things, or so I'm told

Like the family jewels and a satchel of gold!

Then next to the graveyard by the old oak tree

On a dark foggy night at a quarter to three

She was ready to go, but where was he!"

A skeleton popped up behind Vanitas.

"And then?" it asked.

"She waited." Tegan answered in sync with Bonejangles.

"And then?"

Another popped up, and Vanitas glared.

"There in the shadows?" Tegan threw her arm around Vanitas and pointed. "Was it her man?"

"And then?"

Another showed up and Vanitas' eye was twitching erratically.

"Her little heart beat so loud!" Tegan clutched a hand to her heart and pretended to look faint.

"And then?"

At this point Tegan had to hold Vanitas back before he literally knocked the blocks off of the rapidly appearing skeletons. She moved up close and whispered.

"And then, man, everything went black…"

The lights cut off for a second before a spotlight showed Bonejangles on the piano, while Tegan and Vanitas had somehow appeared on top of the bar.

"Now when she opened her eyes, she was dead as dust

Jewels were missin' and her heart was bust!

So she made a vow lying under that tree

To wait for her true love to come set her free!

Always waiting for someone to ask for her hand

Then out of the blue comes this groovy young man,

Who vows forever, to be by her side

And that's the story of our CORSPE BRIDE!"

As the song reached its end, Tegan had drug her partner to the top of a circular staircase. With a smirk, she leapt onto the railing and pulled him on. The two sped down and jumped off. Lucky for them, some of the pub's patrons were prepared.

In a flurry of movement, the dead had grabbed on of the non-decaying tablecloths and stretched it out like a trampoline. The teens landed squarely on it and were bounced up in the air, Tegan laughing while Vanitas yelled odd, smothered curses.

"Haha! Let's do that again! That was awesome, right laddie?" Tegan bounced on her heels and laughed. Vanitas looked around him with a bored face.

"Oh, I don't know. The singing was kinda a turn off." Then he smirked and winked. "But I guess it was a little fun."

Tegan pouted and put him a headlock while the others just laughed. None of them saw Victor flee in a panic, nor the shadowy figure he bumped into on the way out.

"Well, well," the figure's feminine voice mused. "Looks like the pieces are in place. Now for the game to begin…"

Vanitas: *sneaking up on sleeping Light, holding up the sharpie* Hehehe...

L&DH: *arm shoots out and flips him over desk, sits up and yawns* Nice try, Vanitas. What did you think that would accomplish anyway?

Vanitas: You made me go through that stupid musical number!

Tegan: *sees the confused look on L&DH's face* We just got to the Corpse Bride Light.

L&DH: Oh! Cool! But what can I say? I like that music number and it was the perfect chance to let Tegan mess with you a bit, Van~~~

Salem: So where are the boys and me?

L&DH: That'll be revealed in the next chapter, Say. You'll have to wait. Thanks for reading everyone! And let's here what you have to say about this first world! I wanna hear you feedback!

Everyone: BYE!