Paw: I'm soo happy!

Angel: Why?

Paw: I only had a half day of school today and it was my last day of school until August!

Angel: Sweet Summer Vacation.

Paw: Oh yeah, the world Jeanna and Sora landed- er, crashed on last chapter was pretty much my story Forbidden Love. I did change some things so it wouldn't get confusing- like names and such, but you'll see that.

Jenny: Onto the Chapter!

Angel/Paw: ...

Disclaimer: Still no ownership of either. T.T Oh well.

Chapter 10

Blood. That's all I can see. Blood, along with the rank smell of death and despair.

Pained screams reach my ears. Gunshots follow.

The dull thuds of bodies slamming onto the ground follow shortly after that.

What is going on here?

Where am I?

I brought my hands too my eyes and rubbed them. Slowly, my vision came back.

From what I could see, I was on top of a dangerously steep ridge. Below me was a battlefield, a battle raging on. It was occurring near and around a town (or was it a village?) tucked in, safely hidden and protected by the ridge and a ravine.

It seemed that one side was full humans, and the other side had animal appendages. The humans were firing guns at the other side- I'll call them demons for now –but the demons seemed to be winning.

What is going on?

I stared, enraptured, at the battlefield at the fight occurring.

Why was this occurring?

Before I could ponder it anymore, I heard something that made me turn around sharply.

"Jeanna watch out!" Was what made me turn around, and before I could even blink Sora was in front of me, like, not even a second after I heard a gunshot go off. It took me a couple seconds to register what had just happened before Sora slumped down onto the ground in front of me.

Then I saw it.

It was a human, like down on the battlefield, and he had a gun pointed at me. I think it was pretty obvious he was aiming for me.

I couldn't do anything though. It was like I was frozen in place. With Fear. Or Shock. Either works for me.

I… just… couldn't believe it.

Why would Sora protect somebody like me?

I don't really give a damn if I die or not. Not since what… what happened to… to… to Jaden.

But, does that really give me the right to let somebody give their life for me just because I don't want to live? I never liked fighting. Especially wars. Wars caused so any deaths of my people, memory land or not. I can't handle deaths, whether I caused them or not.

Why are these people fighting anyway? It's not like anyone has anything to gain, fighting like this.

Oh, but for them, there is something for them to gain from fighting.

I jumped at the voice. I hadn't heard that voice in a long time. Could it possibly just be my imagination?

I'm not your imagination Princess, I can guarantee that.

"What do you want?" I called out nervously, taking a step back.

Oh me? I just thought you'd like to know something, Princess.

"Why should I believe you?" I questioned. "I haven't been able to trust you before, why should I now?" Even though I couldn't see her, I could tell she was smirking.

Oh you can trust me Princess, be sure of that.

"Then what do you want?" I asked, frightened of the answer I might get.

You wanted an answer to why this all started, didn't you?

"Yeah," I said, since she was indicating to the battlefield below behind me.

Well I'll tell you why the battle started.

"Why?" I asked, still frightened.

It started because of you.

I couldn't take it.

"N-n-no!" I protested. "How could I start all of that! It… it… it… it isn't possible!"

Oh, but it is.

"N-no!" I protested futilely trying to prove she was wrong. I took a step backwards, only to realize that there wasn't any step backwards.

I plunged backwards- not into the battlefield, but into a black, dark abyss.

There's something wrong here. I know it.

Figures suddenly started flashing in front of my eyes, on a mirror in my mind.

It was my friends- old and new –in front of me.

Their pictures.

Them lying, dead, in front of me, their blood on my claws.

Their blood splattered all over my face.

My clothes stained with their blood.

"Stop it!" I shrieked, slamming my fist into the mirror. I watched the blood on my knuckles trickle down my hand. I… just… I just… can't… take it anymore.

"Jeanna, wake up!"

I jumped. Who was that? That wasn't her, I know it wasn't. I recognize the voice though. Who is it?

"Wake up Jeanna! You seriously need to wake up! It's not good for your health!"

"I don't think she can hear you."

I groaned, and placed a hand to my forehead. My head started hurting like hell all of a sudden, and before I knew it, I had bolted straight up right.

"Woah, watch it!" A girl's voice penetrated my ears. I shook my head, trying to rid it of my headache from hell.

"Watch it!" The same voice from behind entered my ears. "You're only aggravating your injury more!"

"M-m-my injury?"

"Yes. Now, I'm going to help you sit up, and you're going to cooperate with me, alright?" I nodded; my head feeling like it was on fire.

I felt my body being helped into a sitting position, and my back leaning against something- a wall, more than likely.

I blinked, trying to get adjusted to the light in the room I was in.

I nearly had a heart attack when Sora suddenly popped up in my vision, leaning over the bed I was in, bandages going across diagonally on his face.

Apparently somebody else was in the room other than us two, and she noticed me jump when my vision was cleared.

"I told you not to stand so close to her Sora!" She scolded.

"What happened?" I asked, clutching my head. There was something blocking the origin of my pain- gauze, maybe?

"We crashed, remember?" Sora said. My brows furrowed for a moment as I tried to remember. Then it came back to me.

"Oh yeah," I said nonchalantly before a bright light was flashed in my eyes.

"My name's Maggie Snow," The girl said. She moved the light from one eye to another. "My daughters and their friends found you in the clearing in the forest." She clicked the light off.

"Well, it doesn't seem like you've suffered any lasting trauma," She announced.

"How long was I out?" I asked.

"About a day or two," A voice from the door said. I turned and saw a girl with black hair and aquamarine eyes grinning cat-like and mischievously at me.

"I'm Alyssa by the way," She said, sauntering over to my bed. "My little sister and I found you. Your friend there woke up about a couple hours ago."

"I have a name you know!" Sora protested, and Alyssa laughed and ruffled his hair.

"And I don't feel like using it." She said, and turned to her mother. "So Mom, is she able to leave?"

"As long as she feels up to it and her ankle isn't bothering her, then fine," Maggie answered.

"My… ankle?" I said, looking down towards my leg.

"Yeah," Alyssa said. "You seemed to have banged your right ankle up just as bad as Sora messed up his wrist."

"Oh that ankle," I said nonchalantly. "It'll be fine. I'm used to having this ankle wounded." Alyssa smiled.

"Alright then!" She said with a smile. "Your bandages come off and you get show of your bruises to the village!" She seems… a little too hyper… Oh well! I laughed, and so did Sora.

That is, until Sora realized Alyssa actually meant it.

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Third Person P.O.V

"And that's the town meeting hall!" Alyssa said, sounding like a little kid as she pointed to a blue building whose roof was covered with fluffy white snow. Jeanna laughed, and Sora just had a grim expression on his face, his head towards the ground. He seemed to be hiding something from them.

"So they're allowed outside?" An amused voice sounded from ahead of them.

"Yup!" Alyssa said. The people in front of them was two blunettes and a blonde.

"Can we go with you 'Lyssa?!" The blonde girl whined, clinging to Alyssa's skirt.

"Yeah, can we?" The blunette girl whined.

"I don't know," Alyssa answered. "Can they come with us Zack?" She indicated towards the tall blunette.

"Ali has to be back before supper," Zack answered, and the blunette nodded her head furiously. "Sora's your decision." Jeanna started giggling, and so did Alyssa.

"What did I say?" Zack asked.

"Well, looks like we have two Sora's with us today!" Alyssa giggled, taking the blonde's hand and twirling her in a circle. She giggled.

"Sora, Jeanna," Alyssa said, "This is my little sister Sora," She indicated to the blonde who's hand she was holding, "And Alice, or Ali, Zack's little sister." She motioned to the girl with periwinkle hair and hazel eyes.

"So, let's go!" Alyssa said, taking Ali's hand. "There are still a lot of places for you to see, and I have friends I want you to meet!" Zack looked up at the sky.

"I take this as a sign to leave," Alyssa muttered, "Zacky's getting spacey!" She giggled and drug the four kids off.

"Hey I have a question Alyssa," Jeanna said suddenly, slightly distracted as if she had something on her mind besides the question she just asked to ask.

"Shoot." Alyssa answered, throwing her hands in the air, her red skirt sashaying all the while.

"Why did your Mom say that I had to wake up, or else it wouldn't be good for my health?" Jeanna asked with a curious expression on her face.

"Oh that," Alyssa said, waving her hand in the air as if it was nothing. "My Mom's the local doctor. She has the highest success rate for keeping people out of comas. One or two days after a person with a head injury is admitted, unconscious, to the clinic she'll do everything in her power to get them to wake up." Jeanna's mouth formed a small 'o' and Sora snickered silently to himself.

"You're welcome." Alyssa added spontaneously.

"For what?" Jeanna and Sora asked simultaneously, their voices chorusing together in perfect harmony.

"One," Alyssa said, ticking off one of her fingers. "I rescued you with Zack's help. Two, if it wasn't for my mom being a medic you'd probably be dead right now, and Three, you're borrowing my clothes Jeanna."

"I am?" Jeanna said, sounding shocked. She looked down at her outfit. She was wearing a long, swaying black skirt, and a black blouse with "Free Bird" Written on it in cursive, white writing; the skirt had a hot pink belt around the waist and she had black ballet shoes on her feet. It wasn't the green skirt blue shirt she wore at Disney Castle.

"Oh," She said before giggling. "Thanks Alyssa." Alyssa smiled.

"No problem," Alyssa said casually. "Now hurry up! There's one more place I want you guys to see before we have to head in from the cold!" Ali and Sora S. giggled and darted in front of her break the serenity of the unbroken snow. They had left the town.

"Where is it?" Jeanna asked, looking around.

"It's still a ways off." Alyssa said, walking forward and grabbing Ali and Sora's hands. "But it is pretty cool."

'And if I'm right, it'll be the safest place for you when it breaks out.' She thought to herself, looking up at the sky.

"Come on," Alyssa said abruptly, causing Jeanna and Sora to jump. "It's still a little way and it looks like a storm is going to break out. I want you to stay since we don't know how long we'll be cooped up." Sora nodded, but Jeanna couldn't help but feel a little suspicious.

'She's hiding something, but what?' Jeanna thought to herself. She looked towards the sky. There were pitch black clouds looming in the distant, but they were moving at a snails' pace. She didn't comment on how bad the storm looked, but she also couldn't help but feel like this was a bad idea.

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The scene below them looked faintly familiar to Jeanna. They were standing on a dangerously steep ridge, and they were looking down into the ravine with the town hidden, nestled, surrounded by a sea of trees with a clearing near the ridge.

"Isn't this just the coolest?" Alyssa asked, walking to Sora and Jeanna and clasping her hands on their shoulders. "You can see the whole town from here!" Jeanna nodded, trying to keep the troubled expression off of her face. Sora's face, however, lit up and he looked down on the town, completely forgetting about the scar he had been trying to hide earlier.

Jeanna looked up at the sky. The ominous, onyx cloud was looming over head, but before Jeanna could say anything something exploded in their ears.

A Gunshot.

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"Hey, I think we finally found a world!" Kairi's voice brought Riku back to the Land of Living from the Land of Sleep he was currently in. It had been hours- no scratch that –days since they had left the Warp Hole. And Riku was grumpy because Kairi's loud voice brought him out of sleep.

"Yipee." Riku muttered half-sarcastically, half-serious.

The outside of the world was a bunch of trees. It was a big, green forest, and it seemed that there was a town of some sort nestled somewhere in the middle of it.

"Let's land," She continued, ignoring Riku and Donald's glares. "Maybe someone on that world knows where Sora and Jeanna are."

"I wouldn't count on it." Riku grunted.

"Well, it's worth a try anyway," Kairi said optimistically, ignoring the antagonist sitting next to her.

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"Hey, I think there's something up ahead!" Kairi said, running through the snow with ease. Riku grunted and followed at a much slower pace, not enjoying the snow. Donald and Goofy were a short ways behind them.

"It's a crash site." Kairi breathed, when Riku, Donald, and Goofy had caught up.

"Do you, uh, think this was the Gummi Ship Jeanna and Sora were in?" Goofy asked.

"It might be," Riku answered, stepping closer to it.

"The windshield is broken," He observed. "That was probably their way out of the Gummi Ship. They both flew through the windshield, and crashed somewhere around here," Riku walked to a couple of trees.

"Very perceptive," A voice from behind them said. They jumped, and turned around, Kairi and Riku summoning their Keyblades, Donald his staff, and Goofy his shield. They saw two girls- one with brown hair and hazel eyes, she had fox ears and tail; the other had platinum hair like Riku, and she had tail feathers.

"Put those away," The silverette hissed. "You don't want the Heartless and Nobodies to come, do you?" The gang looked shocked, but they complied.

"I'm Jamie," The brunette said quickly, sensing the uneasiness between the two groups. "The silverette is Ashley. We didn't expect anybody to be here."

"Why are you here?" Riku asked, his gaze never leaving the girls.

"We should be asking you that," Ashley snapped. "This is Demon Territory, not yours."

"Ashley, calm down," Jamie said. "Well, why are you here? The Keyblade War ended a century ago, so you can't be Lylix's friends."

"What do you mean?!" Donald quacked, "The war hasn't started!" Jamie stared at Donald.

"What did you say?" She asked. Ashley smacked her forehead.

"He said something about how the war hasn't started." She answered. "But that's impossible, we lived through the war!"

"You're right," Jamie said with a sigh, her eyes closed and her chin on her right hand.

"How did you live through the war?" Kairi asked, "If you said it was a century ago?"

"We're demons," Ashley said with a shrug. "Pure Bloods, mind you. We're immortal. We only die if someone kills us."

"So, why are you here?" Jamie asked again.

"We're looking for two of our friends," Riku said stoically. "One's a blonde with sapphire blue eyes, and the other is a brunette with gravity defying hair and azure eyes. Have you seen them?" At the descriptions Jamie and Ashley started whispering among themselves.

"They sound like…"

"…Lylix never said…"

"They might not be awake…"

"…they're dead?"

"…shouldn't tell them…"

"Um… We can hear you, you know?" Kairi said timidly. The girls froze and turned to the group.

"Shit." Ashley cussed.

"Look," Jamie said, "Two kids were brought to the clinic two days ago by Lylix and Zack. They match the description of your friends, but we don't know if they're in stable condition or even alive." Kairi gasped.

"We can take you to Mrs. Snow," Ashley offered. "She was placed in charge of them, and her daughter is the one that found them."

"And it'd be safer in town," Jamie added. "There looks to be a pretty nasty storm coming."

"Alright," Riku said with a nod, and they followed Jamie and Ashley.

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"Hey Mrs. Snow," Jamie said as they entered the clinic.

"Jamie I've told you countless times to call me Maggie," Maggie scolded lightly.

"Fine, Maggie," Jamie said. "We were wondering if you had any updates on the kids Lylix brought in."

"She goes by Alyssa, Jamie," Maggie said. "And yes, I do. Why?"

"We've brought some people who say they're their friends." Ashley said, stepping aside to show the kids.

"Seth? Cheyenne?" Maggie muttered too herself. "No."

"Did you say anything Miss?" Kairi asked, cocking her head to the side.

"No, I didn't," Maggie said. "And please, call me Maggie. So you're Sora and Jeanna's friends?" Kairi and Riku nodded their heads.

"Well, they're fine." Maggie said. "They're both awake, and Alyssa is giving them a tour of the town. They should be back anytime no-" but before Maggie could finish her sentence, a gunshot rung out through the town.

"What was that?" Riku said, turning sharply towards the door. No one answered him. He turned to Maggie, Jamie, and Ashley, and Maggie was picking up a wall phone thing. She picked up the phone part and pressed nine.

"Hunter Attack!" She said into the phone. "This is not a drill, repeat, Not A Drill! Children and elders to the safe place. Every able-bodied demon to the square!"

"What's going on?!"Kairi asked, frightened.

"Can you four fight?" Maggie asked.

"Yes, but why?" Riku asked.

"There's no time." Maggie answered. "You're fighting for us, we trust you. Don't attack anybody with animal appendages. Got it?" The four nodded, and Maggie nodded.

"Jamie, Ashley, lead them to the square." Maggie commanded. She tossed two revolvers at them. "Don't hesitate to use them." The girls nodded and turned to Riku, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy.

"What's going on?" Kairi asked as people rushed around with Rabbit, Cat, Bird, Fox, Wolf, and Dog appendages.

"It's an attack on the town." Ashley answered. "The Hunters must have a lot of guts if they're attacking the town directly."

"The last time they attacked the town directly was when…" Jamie froze. "You two, what is Jeanna's last name?" Kairi and Riku were confused as were Donald and Goofy.

"We have names you know!" Kairi protested, nearly tripping on a cobblestone that had been upturned from the ground.

"You're Kairi, and the platinum is Riku," Jamie said without turning around. "Now hurry up and answer the question. We need to get to the square."

"I don't know it." Kairi and Riku said simultaneously.

"Great," Ashley muttered, picking up her pace. When they finally made it to the square, it was filled with people. On one side was the demons, the other, humans.

The Humans- Hunters, was what Jamie and Ashley along with Maggie referred to them as –were on the side opposite of Kairi, Riku, Donald, and Goofy.

They had a boy in front of them. He had messy black hair, and jade green eyes. His eyes had a glint of defiance in them, and he had black wolf ears and he had his wolf tail held up high despite his current position.

Two lead Hunters had his arms tied behind his back, and they had him forced in a kneeling position in about the center of the square. They both had daggers pointed at his neck, as if saying "Try anything and he dies." Jamie and Ashley gasped.

"Who is that?" Donald asked. Jamie looked at Ashley for a translation.

"That's Artemis, Lyli- I mean, Alyssa's twin brother." Ashley answered. "Never thought to see him again."

"Why?" Kairi asked, but before she could get an answer, two figures walked into the square. They both had wolf ears and tails, but one was a brunette and the other had dark blue hair.

"The blunette is Zack," Jamie said in answer to kids' silent question. "The brunette is my brother, Jason."

"What are you doing here?" Zack said, "And why do you have Artemis?"

"Shouldn't we be asking you why you had him spy?" One of the Hunters sneered.

"I told you already, no one told me too!" Artemis growled. "I did of my own free will!" The Hunters wouldn't hear it. The one to his left kicked him harshly in the ribs.

"We're here to make a trade." The Hunter to Artemis' right said.

"What sort of trade?" Zack asked.

"This Loyalty Demon for…" The Hunter paused.

"The peacemaker."

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Paw: Peacemaker? Why would people need a peacemaker?

Angel: Hmm...

Chazz: You. Are. Idiots.

Paw/Angel: Why?

Chazz: Isn't it obvious what a peacemaker is?

Paw: Maybe we don't want to tell people!

Angel: Yeah!

Chazz: ...tch...

Paw: Whelp, read and review!!

-Scarpaw signing out-