Chapter Ten: Let me show you my heart
We were on the Gummi ship, and Sora had told me about finding an Ansem report, as well as a torn piece of paper. I took it upon myself to read to the boys the report.
Much of my life has been dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge.
That knowledge has guarded this world well. Not a soul doubts that.
I am blessed with people's smiles and respect. But though I am called a sage, there are things I do not understand.
I believe darkness sleeps in every heart, no matter how pure. Given the chance, the smallest drop can spread and swallow the heart. I have witnessed it many times.
Darkness...Darkness of the heart. How is it born?
How does it come to affect us so?
As ruler of this world, I must find the answers. I must find them before the world is lost to those taken by the darkness.
"This could give us clues about the heartless," I said, reviewing the report. "I'll keep them with me, we may find more."
"What about the torn paper?" I asked after. Sora examined the paper, he moved it sideways and then upside down.
"Maybe it belongs to Merlin's book?" he asked. Sora, Donald, and Goofy knew about my mission around Traverse Town looking for Merlin and giving him the tattered book, just in case you're wondering how they knew.
"Let's return it to town and give it to him," suggested Goofy.
So we did.
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We landed in the accessory shop, but we were met with something weird and random.
"Well, well," Jiminy said as he propped himself on Sora's shoulder. "As long as I live and breathe! If it isn't Pinocchio!"
A little wooden ...boy? Or doll? Whatever, he was on the floor covering his head, probably hiding from someone.
"Oh. Hi, Jiminy!" he chirped.
"What in the world are you doing down here?" Jiminy asked.
"Um...Playing hide-and-seek," he said, although he had to think about it.
"I just don't believe it," Jiminy said. "And here I was, up all night, just worried sick about you. Why of all the-"
"Pinocchio!"
It was weird, very weird. The wooden boy's nose grew longer, and...well, really. I have nothing to say about it for once.
"Pinocchio!" shouted Jiminy. "Are you telling me the truth?"
"Yes!" he replied.
"Then tell me," Jiminy pointed at the box beside Pinocchio. "What is this?"
"It was a present," Pinocchio said.
"No fibbing, now!" retorted Jiminy. "You know you're not suppose to tell lies."
"A lie only grows and grows," he continued. "'Til you get caught! Plain as the nose on your face!"
I covered my nose, I told some lies to Sora. One was that Maleficent gave me powers, and two is that Hades helped me cover that lie. I'm pretty sure there are also some lies I've lied to myself about, I was starting to think that my life was currently a lie.
"I'll go find Geppetto, so you just wait here," I heard Jiminy say. Completely taking me out of my thought.
"These guys here will be helping me," he continued. We were doing what now?
"We will?" asked Sora. Heh, it was almost as if you read my mind!
"Well, shall we go, Sora?" Jiminy asked.
Sora looked at Jiminy with a solemn face. "You could've asked us first..."
"Well, that's another thing to add to our list," I said. "But we originally came here for Merlin's book, so let's go."
Sora nodded, and we both left. As we walked however, Sora's hand lightly brushed off mine. I looked at him, and he was looking at me too. It wasn't awkward or anything, it felt pretty...natural to touch hands or something.
Anyway, we made it to Merlin's house, and there we saw the book. I took out the torn paper, and the book began to open. A puff of sparkles surrounded both Sora and I, and the next thing I knew, I shrunk.
"Whoa, where are we?" Sora asked. I looked around, and I saw we were in a forest, I looked up and saw Merlin's ceiling. We were most likely in the tattered book.
"We're most likely in the book," I said. Sora nodded, and looked around.
"Hey, look over there!" he exclaimed. I looked over, and I saw an empty meadow.
"Let's check it out," I suggested.
We walked over to the meadow, and we saw a big log in the middle. We also saw a very cute looking teddy bear! Oh, I love teddy bears~
"Think, think," the teddy bear said. "Think, think."
I squealed, and I ran towards the teddy bear. It looked so much cuter up close, and it looked really fluffy too. I took a glance beside me, and Sora was looking at me as if I was weird or something, geez, can't a girl like cute things?
"Hi, there," Sora looked at the teddy bear. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, just thinking," he replied.
"Oh," was all Sora could say.
"I was thinking of how to say goodbye to pooh," the bear said.
"Pooh?" Sora asked.
"Yes?" he replied. I'm thinking he's pooh. I asked just to be sure.
"Wait a second, are you pooh?" I asked, I took a seat next to Pooh, and Sora sat on the other side of Pooh.
"Yes, I'm Winnie the Pooh," he confirmed. "Pooh for short, who are you two?"
"I'm Sor-"
"I'm Marie! And you're the cutest thing ever!" I squealed, I looked over at Sora, and he looked a little angry. Whoops, probably shouldn't have cut him off like that.
Hundred Acre wood
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Sora and Marie
Sora didn't really experience jealousy to it's full extent.
Until now.
He didn't really like the fact that Marie was squealing all over Winnie the pooh, sure he was a teddy bear. But it really wasn't necessary for her to go all...girly over him.
"Oh. Hello, Sor, Marie," greeted Pooh. "Have you come to say goodbye to Pooh, too?"
"Uh, it's Sora actually," replied Sora. "And why would I do that? We've only just met."
"And you're too cute to say goodbye too!" Marie said, giggling like a school girl. Sora could sit in jealousy right now.
Pooh laughed. "Well everyone's gone away."
"What do you mean?" asked Sora.
"Well, we all lived here in the Hundred Acre Wood," said Pooh. "And we'd take walks together, or play Pooh sticks.."
"And every day, I'd eat some honey," he finished. "Just one smackeral would taste very good right now."
Pooh rubbed his tummy, which made Marie smile brightly, and Sora glare intensely. "But now everyone's gone!"
"All my friends, and my favourite Hunny tree too," continued Pooh. "Everyone must've gone away while I was napping, I think.."
"So, who knows?" Pooh jumped off the log. "Maybe I shall end up going away somewhere as well."
This made Marie think. What Pooh said triggered a memory for her.
FlashBack
Radiant Garden
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Marie
"Ansy," Marie called out. "Can I walk around town?"
"I suppose," Ansem looked over to Marie. "But I would prefer if Dilan accompanied you."
Ansem realized that Marie was at the stage of learning everything. Normally, he wouldn't even allow her to leave the castle, just like Ienzo. But she was learning, and growing. He didn't want to limit her knowledge, for she was a very clever and bright girl. So every time she would walk around outside the castle, he would assign her an escort.
"Ew," she said. "He's scary looking, why can't Even come instead?"
"He's much to busy raising Ienzo," replied Ansem. "So Dilan or Aeleus will do."
"Okay," she gave in. "I'll take Dilan."
"Perfect," Replied Ansem. "He's outside, I've already sent word."
Marie left, and along the way she saw Braig. She never really much liked him, as he had a weird feeling surrounding him. Also, he was the only person she knew that talked to the man that had kidnapped her. She left, glaring at the man.
Of course, Braig was having a hard time. The man who had kidnapped Marie ordered him to take her back as she had no darkness in her heart. He told Braig that she would prove useful in his experiments. This was rather tricky for Braig, as he had to take Marie when she wasn't with anyone, but she was always with someone.
Outside the castle, Marie saw Dilan waiting. She hated being followed around, but if she wanted her freedom, she would have to comply.
"Are you ready for your walk?" asked Dilan, he was scary, but he was at least nice to Marie. But still scary looking.
"Yeah," she started walking ahead. She walked around, and met with people she had grown a relationship with, such as Cid, and bought some sea-salt ice cream from scrooge, whom she just referred to as 'uncle'.
But today was a unique day, upon eating her ice cream, she bumped into someone, resulting in her ice cream to fall.
"Oh!" the person said. "I'm so sorry!"
Marie looked at the ice cream, and then looked at the person. She was a tall woman with blue eyes and blue hair. She had a weapon with her, but Marie didn't really care.
"That's okay," she said. "I can always get more."
Marie looked at the woman, she smiled at her, and the woman smiled back. Marie stuck out her hand, signaling the woman to take it.
"Let's get more," she said. "I'll buy you one."
The woman smiled, and took Marie's hand. They walked back to Scrooge, along the way, Marie and the woman had a mutual interest in each other. Marie was able to see a protector inside the woman. While the woman, was able to sense the kindness, and purity within Marie's heart.
After buying the ice cream, Marie and the woman were sitting on a near-by bench. They both watched the sunset, and started eating their ice cream.
"I'm Marie," said Marie. "What's yours?"
The woman smiled, and chuckled. "I'm Aqua."
Hundred Acre Wood
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Marie
"Aqua..?" I said aloud.
Who was Aqua? This memory that I experienced surely wasn't mind. Was I...
"Who's Aqua?" I heard Sora ask.
"oh?" I looked at him. "No one, I was just...thinking about the colour Aqua."
"Oh," he said. "You were really out if it, I said your name five times."
"Oh," I said. I couldn't concentrate, and I was feeling a bit sad.
"Annnd, you're not paying attention to me are you?" I heard Sora, this time I was paying attention. I was still sitting on the log, and I looked up in the sky. Whatever was happening to me, I could tell to Sora, right? He's my friend, after all.
"Sora," I said. "Is it normal to forget everything you know about?"
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Well, it's just," I hesitated a bit, no, I have to at least let someone know. "I've been forgetting stuff that I really shouldn't. I used to remember my home, I used to remember my friends, I used to remember my parents. My brother and sister are the only memory I have to live on."
"How are you forgetting everything?" he asked, sounding a bit worried.
"That's the thing. I don't know how I'm forgetting," I felt my voice starting to crack. "I didn't want you to worry, but when we first tried to help Jasmine, Jafar said I didn't belong here, and to stop acting as if I did. And to start realizing the truth."
I looked down as I continued. "When I first met Cid, I felt like I've seen him so many times. And...When we met Riku..I also felt like I've seen him too."
Sora's eyes shot up. "Riku? Where have you seen him?"
"After Jafar let go of me, I passed out," I said, and he nodded. "I saw myself as a little girl talking to Riku, we were meeting for the first time. I don't know where we were, but it also felt familiar. If I don't belong here like Jafar said, then why do I know people? Like is any of this for real, or not?"
Sora had a melancholious expression. "I don't know. But I do know that what we're going through is real."
"I don't know," I depressingly said. "I really don't know about anything, Sora."
Spoken moment
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Sora
To forget everything was horrible, Sora thought. He wondered how Marie knew about Cid, and more importantly, Riku. He was glad Marie had told her about her personal vendetta, but at the same time he was a little annoyed that she hadn't told her earlier.
He now knew why she was so gloomy and distant at times, or why she was so out of it. Knowing that he couldn't help before killed him, but now, everything changed. He was granted the chance to help her, granted the chance to even save her from all the stress.
But one thing did cross his mind, if Marie was forgetting everything, would she eventually forget about him? Would she forget their adventure together? Sora didn't want this, he didn't want to become a memory, especially Marie's memory. He wanted to be in her mind twenty-four seven, he cared, almost loved Marie. He wanted to ask to be sure.
"Marie," he asked. "Would you forget about me?"
"I don't know," she said, voice still shaking. "But I don't want to."
Sora looked at Marie, and noticed that she was struggling to keep herself from crying. Sora always liked how Marie was such a strong person, she was never faltering, never showed any signs of true weakness.
At least until now, her weakness was the truth about herself, and she was showing it, although barely. She struggled so much, but kept pushing forward strongly. Sora was quite glad to see her fragile side, if anything, this little moment made their friendship stronger.
"Marie," he softly said. "If you want to cry, you can cry on my shoulder."
Marie looked at Sora for a moment, and started to whimper. She was tugging on his sleeve, and soon after she dug herself in his shoulder, tightly holding onto him as she cried all her frustration and anger out.
It was at this moment Sora finally decided that he was going to be by Marie's side. Forever.
Hundred Acre Wood
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Marie
I cried, and cried, and cried everything that was bothering me. I knew Sora's sleeve was going to be wet, but I don't think he minded too much. It felt so good telling someone about my personal issue, and I was so grateful that Sora was the one to tell.
I lifted myself from Sora's sleeve, and wiped the excess tears. "Thanks, Sora. I really appreciate it."
I got off the log, and Sora jumped off after. I looked at his sleeve, and indeed it was wet, I touched it, and starting rubbing it lightly. I felt Sora's hand grasp mine, and I looked at him. He was smiling, as usual.
"I'll try hard to help you," he said. "I won't let you suffer anymore."
All I could do was smile and stare, Sora was amazing. Behind that cute exterior was a sweet and caring person, with a generous heart. Whether I realize the 'truth' that Jafar told me to remember or not, I do know one thing:
I want to stay with Sora for as long as I can. I don't know if I'm too young to say this, but I really do love Sora, so I hugged him. "Thank you Sora. I trust you."
"let's go help out pooh," he said, ruffling my hair. "I'm sure he needs our help too."
I chuckled, and started walking. But not to long after I felt Sora's hand clasp into mine, he smiled at me, and I noticed a little bush on his face. I smiled back, and we went to look for pooh while holding hands.
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Well, I won't bore you with boring details. All we really did in the book was find Pooh's friends, and help him attain some hunny to eat. We were still missing some pages, so we couldn't finish the book entirely, so we left and met up with Donald and Goofy.
"Alright," I said, waving my arms around. "Let's go look for those other pages!"
"We gotta look for Geppetto too," added Goofy.
"Well let's go already!" said a very impatient looking Donald.
We walked back to the gummi ship, and left Traverse Town. I was reading over the Ansem report again, trying to find anything else about the heartless, but with just one report it was kinda hard.
"What is that?" I heard Donald asked. I looked up and saw on the screen a huge blue blob, it was floating.
"Wow, it's huge!" exclaimed Sora. I saw the huge blob moving, and it started coming towards us, I kinda panicked, and held onto Sora. When it started moving left, I saw that I was a giant whale, and it passed us. I sighed, but wow, that thing is HUGE!
"It's a giant whale!" exclaimed Goofy.
"It's Monstro!" exclaimed Jiminy. Geez, everyone was exclaiming a lot. "He's a whale of a whale, and vicious besides!"
I quickly glanced at the screen, and I saw Monstro coming back. Holy crap, that thing is going to eat us if we don't get out of here.
"Whoa! Sora, get us out of here!" shouted Donald. I looked over and saw Monstro's mouth opening.
"Too late!" I shouted. "It's gonna swallow us!"
The past
Destiny Islands
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Sora
On Destiny islands, there were two young boys walking down some steps. They were best friends, Sora and Riku. They were walking along to the 'secret cave', Sora had heard a monster, and ran to Riku saying it was real.
"It's true! I saw it with my own eyes!" exclaimed a little Sora.
"You sure you didn't just hear it this time?" asked a little Riku.
"What difference does it make?" said Sora. "There's a huge monster in there, I tell you!"
"All right. Suppose there really is a monster," said Riku. "Think we can beat it by ourselves, Sora?"
"No problem," Sora raised his fist. "Let's do it!"
"Listen! There!" he shouted. "Can you hear it growling?"
Riku leaned in the entrance of the 'secret cave' and tried listening. "Shh, quiet. We've gotta be careful."
Both Riku and Sora walked into the 'secret cave', and listened closely. Riku face-palmed when he found out it was the wind making that 'howling' noise. He pointed at the sky. "See that? It was just the wind making that noise."
Sora dropped his shoulders, and then stood straight. He walked a little further in, and stood in front of the drawing that Marie had drawn a couple of months ago. "Aw man, I wish it was a monster!"
"Hold on," Sora turned to his right. "What's that over there?"
A door appeared to their right, Riku walked up to it, while Sora stayed behind. "A window, or maybe a door? It won't open."
Riku sighed, and walked up to Sora. Sora looked around, and soon got bored. "Geez, is that really all that's in here?"
"What do you expect in a boring place like this?" Riku looked around. "Hey, Sora."
"Hm?" Sora turned to Riku with a questioning look.
"When we grow up, let's get off this island." said Riku. "We'll go on real adventures, not this kid stuff!"
Although it was true that he wanted to go on real adventures, Riku really wanted to find Marie. He was sure she was off the island, and was probably in cool places.
"Sure," Sora agreed. "But isn't there anything fun to do now?"
"Let's go build a raft," replied Riku.
Monstro
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Sora
"KNOCK IT OFF!" shouted Donald.
Sora awoke, and rubbed his head. He heard Donald yelling and got up to see what the commotion was.
"Hey, Sora, are you okay?" asked Goofy, he was shielding himself from something above.
Sora took a moment to take in what was happening, and what happened. "What are you guys doing? Where are we, anyway?"
Sora looked around, and something seemed off. He looked and looked until he finally realized. "You guys, where's Marie!"
A treasure chest fell from above, and Sora dodged it.
"Uh, ya know," said Goofy. "I think that big ol' whale Monstro just swallowed us. And we don't know where Marie is."
"And for today's weather: expect showers," Goofy said as he covered himself, a treasure chest fell in top of his shield. "heavy showers!"
Sora began to worry, he promised to himself he wouldn't leave her side, and right after that promise they both get separated. Sora sighed, he trusted Marie, and he knew she was going to be alright. He had faith after all.
"Hey!" shouted Donald. "Who's there?"
"It's me," shouted Pinocchio.
"Oh, it's just Pinocchio," he said, taking in a moment to realize why he was here. "Pinocchio!"
"Pinocchio!" Jiminy propped himself on Sora's shoulder. "Pinocch, where are you going? Pinocch!"
Pinocchio left, carrying a gummi block with him. Jiminy sighed and looked at the rest. "Come on, everybody! After him! Quick!"
"What about Marie?" asked Sora. He wasn't really worried, she was strong, but regardless he was still worried a bit.
"Marie is a strong girl," said Jiminy. "I'm worried about Pinocchio. We'll look for Marie right after we find Pinocch!"
Sora nodded, although reluctantly. And they began following Pinocchio.
FlashBack
Radiant Garden
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Marie
Today was a very special day for Marie, as she was going to hang out with her older sister without having Dilan or Aeleus escorting her.
Now, Aqua wasn't Marie's real sister, but the bond that these two had was similar to that of one. They even went so far as to call each other sisters, and it didn't feel awkward saying it.
"Sis!" Marie called out. She waved at Aqua, and walked over to her. "Where are we going today?"
"Well, sis, we're going to eat some sea-salt ice cream," Aqua replied. "I've got something to tell you."
Aqua had a frown on her face, she wasn't coming back to see Marie again, and this was going to be her last visit. Her friend Terra was in trouble, as he had been taken by the darkness. Aqua needed to save him, she felt like she was the only one who could. She also had overheard Braig talk with the man who kidnapped Marie, she found out that Marie had no darkness in her heart, and was supposed to be fused with Vanitas in order to complete the X-blade, but when Ventus came back, Braig had told the man about it, and thus calling off the plan to kidnap Marie.
They arrived at the benches just outside of the castle, and they both sat down. Aqua looked down at her ice cream, too sad to eat it for the last time.
"So what do you gotta tell me?" Marie asked, smiling at Aqua.
Aqua hesitated for a bit, she didn't want to leave. "My friends are in trouble, and I need to save them. Marie, this will be the last time we might see each other."
Marie stared at Aqua, she was getting sad at the thought of her sister leaving her, but her friends were in trouble. Marie had to understand.
"If your friends are in trouble," said Marie. "Then you should help them, because they need you. Don't worry about me, sis. If people are in trouble, we need to help them, right?"
"I love you a lot, sis," Marie continued. "But I'm not in trouble, so you don't need to stay."
Aqua smiled, she knew Marie would understand. She feared she would first object to it, but Marie understood better than anyone, because she was always the type to help people. Aqua thought for a moment, Marie had always told her about wanting to help people when she was older, maybe this would be the start of it.
"Marie," Aqua said. "I want to give you something."
Aqua took out her Keyblade, and positioned so that the handle was facing Marie. "Marie, touch the handle of my blade."
Marie listened, and grabbed the handle. A brief glow of light emitted from the sword, and Marie gasped.
"You now have the power to help others," Aqua smiled. "When you're older you'll understand. You'll do all kinds of nice things."
Marie smiled, and looked at her hand. Aqua had initially meant to do the Keyblade inheritance ritual with Sora, the young boy on Destiny Islands, but when she found out that Terra had done the ritual with Sora's best friend Riku she refrained from doing it. She didn't want him to fight his best friend like she was about to. Marie had a pure, strong heart, Aqua trusted her decision to make Marie a Keyblade wielder.
"Oh!" Marie exclaimed. "I forgot, I made this for you."
Marie gave Aqua a necklace. The chain was a simple string covered in beads, and attached to the necklace were a pair of wings.
"Ansy helped me make it," Marie said. "My mom told me that wings protect people, so I made it for you, you see, I can protect you too!"
Aqua smiled, and put on the necklace. She touched the necklace, and she could almost feel the purity of it. It was made by someone with a pure heart after all. Aqua hugged Marie, it was a beautiful farewell present.
"You're going to be my guardian angel, huh?" said Aqua. "Thank you sis, I'll keep it with me forever."
Marie smiled, and Aqua got up. She said farewell for Marie, and wished her the best of luck in her future. Marie told Aqua that she'll help her friends, and that she along with her friends will hang out with Marie one day. Aqua smiled, and proceeded to walk away.
Marie waved until Aqua wasn't visible anymore, although she was happy that Aqua wanted to save her friends, she was going to miss her.
Because that was the last day that Marie ever saw Aqua again.
Monstro
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Marie
This was the second time being separated from Sora. Although I wasn't worried back then, mainly because I didn't know Sora that well, I was a little worried now. I knew Sora well, and he could easily fight off heartless, but I knew he was worried about me. He always is, but I'm good right now. I didn't break any bones or anything, so good start so far.
I did notice a paper beside me, and I picked it up. It was another Ansem report, but I didn't bother to read it until I met up with Sora and the others. I looked around, there was a lot of places I could go, but I had to choose one. So I chose the left one.
As I walked over to the left opening, I heard a crunching noise, and I looked down. There were two pieces of paper on the floor. I read the first one.
I'm not supposed to do this, but I want you to remember me.
I raised my brow, what the heck? Maybe this was meant for someone else, it wasn't signed or anything though. I looked over to the other paper, and I noticed it didn't have an author's name or anything like that either. But the title of the report said 'Marie'. So I began to read aloud.
The moment I saw this girl I knew something was special about her.
She had offer to help in the experiment on repressing darkness, we wanted to see if there were any traits someone with a pure heart had that could help in repressing darkness.
We had linked her up to the machines we had in the laboratory, and so far everything seemed all right.
But I couldn't have been more wrong.
The machine went awry, and it damaged the child, placing her in a coma.
What I saw that the others did not see was that a glow of light appeared on her forehead very quickly.
We left the young girl in a coma, and did not touch the machines, for fear of harming her.
I received my books from the website. One was a hardcover recent Dictionary, the second is a hardcover Encyclopedia, and the third one is a hardcover Thesaurus. My friend came over the day it was delivered, and she called me weird for buying books instead of jewelery, clothes or make-up. Then I realized, I'm a nerd. A HUGE nerd. Oh well, I live my life as one then.
Anyway, chapter ten is finally done! I'm SO SORRY for the late update. But as you can see, I've give you more information on Marie, and a very very fluffy moment between Sora and Marie. And, OH NOES! They got separated again!
Also, I decided not to add the details of A Hundred Acre Wood because, no heartless, no fun. But it is a great place for fluff, and when they get to the last torn page, I shall write about that, as it shall be another fluff moment!
And also, I created a website full of all my stories and all my OCs, if you want to check it out, click in the homepage button on my profile page!
Anyway, time for thank-yous!
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Now for reviews:
ShimmerMist:
As you've read, Sora covered the drawing, and it goes like this most of the time. But really, when do Sora and Riku ever go inside there unless Sora goes crying 'MONSTER! MONSTER!'? I hardly think ever, and since Kairi comes along they're all too busy having fun while Marie suffers! T_T
Marie is a horrible drawer xD I doubt Sora will recognize her.
Yes, they do want a piece of her Dx I dunno about awesome, but she does posses something they need. And Maleficent is possibly the only one who pays attention, she controls all the other baddies after all. But MANSEX controls her! XD
Then stabbed I shall be! I'd probably be too lazy to even cry out in pain. Dx
XxI-Stole-Your-CookiexX:
Thank you! I'm glad my story is your addiction, makes me feel happy![well better this than crack, right?]
And yes, the whole Sora/Marie concept might be confusing, but it will be sweet in the end. And Sora is very sweet towards Marie, and he will only get sweeter. He cares for her deeply.
sajere1:
Thank you for your compliment!
Now that I think about it, I feel like making Marie a fallen angel. I haven't seen anything like that in Halloween Town, so I thought maybe, why not? But I like the idea about the heartless/nobody pin! XD
And well, it's a bit complicated. I will go through Re:Chain of memories, but Marie won't be there, but she will be there. =S I don't want to say much, but that's all I will say.
Lele-the-Greek-Geek:
Thank you! And I'm glad you don't mind, prepare for some mild-to-major spoiling!
And thank you, I love her a lot, and I want to be a teacher,(preferably an English teacher), so I can possibly teach her in the near future!
Alexandria Volturi:
Thank you very much for your compliment!
Marie probably spends most of her childhood in RG. XD
And you update as well! I can't wait for your next chapter!
Well, thank you guys for reading. I hope you liked this chapter. Love from Canada!