The Tale of the Lost

DnCnChIcK369

Second Stop: Halloween Town

A/N: I might have to split this chapter in two. I don't know, it depends on how many pages it takes to finish. If it's more than my normal amount, then I'm cutting it in half so you'll get the next half next time, okie dokie?

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Kairi irl: Lol, Riku is more important than he seems in this story. In fact, there would BE no story without Riku. It is a very debatable subject about who the plot is more focused on; Riku or Meera. One day, I think I'll ask my friends to pick a side of that argument and argue about it, lol! Tehe, I really like the plot of this thing, actually. One of my friends from school helped me think it up. She rocks! Lol… Sneaking in comedy, haha, that's me! Comedy is quite fun, but I have to admit… okay, nevermind, I think every chapter(almost)has some sort of funny something in it. I DO know a few that don't… but I won't say which right now! Tehe, yay me and my throwing you off! WOO! Lol, jk, but still… I enjoy tricking people. It's fun. Anyway::hands cookie:: Thanks for reviewing!!!!!

Guys… this chapter… thank me, okay? Because this chapter is AWESOME!!!!!! Anyway, seriously… I would appreciate more reviews. Right now, I'm hoping that the wonderful Kairi irl has REALLY GOOD judgment. This story is a democracy, people! If there's something you want more of, something you want less of, and criticism… TELL ME! Please! I'm not saying this because I want more reviews to have a big number. I seriously want to know how you all think I'm doing. I'll still update if you don't review, but if there's anything you want changed, let me know, and I'll change it. I'm writing this for you guys, not myself. I enjoy writing it, yeah, but I want to know what you think of it!

Sorry, I'm done ranting now…

Disclaimer's in chapter 1… enjoy!

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For the rest of the funnest ride of Meera's life(is that sarcasm? I just DON'T KNOW! JK, yes it is!)she sat in the back, staring at a wall. She was excited when they finally got there, because it meant she was able to go and buy a mask from somewhere. But first, Donald did is weird magicy thing that changed them all into their Halloween Town clothes.

Sora's was the same as always.

Kairi was wearing a pointy, black witch hat with a pumpkin with bat wings coming off of the tip. She was wearing a medium-length, dark purple dress that was jagged at the bottom and had spaghetti straps. She had striped, black and white socks and gloves and black, pointy, elf shoes.

Riku had black and red demon wings and black devil horns. He had two fangs coming out over his bottom lip, and his pants were now red Tripp pants.(FYI, those ones with chains…)His shoes were the same, except black, and he now had a tight, black tank top with a large, red, leather X on it, on the front and back.

Meera was wearing a long, black dress, and also had fangs. Her hair was now completely black, except for a stripe around the whole thing that was somehow a very shiny white. Her dress was strapless, but she had a dark purple cape that covered her right shoulder and long, black gloves that went 3/4ths of the way up her arm.

"Why do I have a larger version of my old shirt?" Riku asked. Kairi giggled at this, and Sora just smiled. Meera rolled her eyes. And Donald and Goofy were off to find Jack, instead of hanging around four crazy teenagers.

"You think YOU have a problem? I'm stuck in a floor length dress!" Meera exclaimed. "I hope we don't run into many heartless, because I can't POSSIBLY fight in this."

"Oooo, that's true! Maybe Jack has them under control this year!" Sora said, understanding as much as he could about dresses, being a guy. Riku walked off, closely followed by Sora, probably to go and find masks. Meera and Kairi exchanged glances before running after them to do the same.

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As it turned out, the only mask stores they could find were in Christmas Town and there was a male one, and a female one.

Kairi bought a mask that was midnight blue and had silver patterns on it, with silver ribbons coming off of the side and customized, burgundy ribbon to tie around the back.

Meera looked around for a while before finding a gold mask that faded into light purple on the left and right sides. It had multicolored rhinestones around the entire edge and around the eyes was purple glitter. The entire mask was decorated with light silver designs and there were purple feathers coming off the left side. She decided on the purple dress.

When the two girls got to the place they were staying for the duration of their time there, they immediately left after putting their mask with the dress they chose.

No one really knew where Kairi went for this point in time, but Meera went to talk to none other than Santa Claus himself.

"Ah, Meera, you have been such a good girl this year! Is there anything I can help you with?" He asked, his elves scampering about, doing random things. She realized that Christmas must come more often when you lived in Christmas Town. And apparently, it was near Christmas time.

"Uhm… yes sir… I was wondering when Christmas takes place here?" Meera asked. Santa laughed.

"Why, tomorrow of course! Why do you ask?" Meera's eyes widened. And she quickly sat down in front of Santa's desk.

"Well, me and… a friend want to help to of our other friends get together, you know Sora, right? Well, it's him and this girl he's like FOREVER, Kairi, and she likes him too, but both of them are too scared to do anything because both of them think that the other doesn't like them back, so me and Riku are trying to help them get together, and to do that, we were wondering if we could hold a masque ball here, like, in this general area, or town, or whatever, and we're gonna need some mistletoe if that's okay, just for purposes of our genius matchmaking, and now I'm a bit stressed out because I feel like I should get presents for them all… as in, all five of them, Sora, Kairi, Donald, Goofy, and even Riku," Meera explained, all in one breath.

"Well, of course you can hold a ball! And this is Christmas Town, feel free to use all the mistletoe you'd like! About your presents, though, I can't help you too much there… that's for you to decide! And good luck to you and Riku!" Santa said with a large smile.

'He knows something. HE KNOWS SOMETHING! What does he know that I don't?' Meera thought. She just sighed, gave Santa a small smile, and took a handful of mistletoe from a small basket she noticed on his desk. "Thanks."

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When Meera managed to find Riku(the mistletoe was off with her keyblade, wherever it went…)she ran up to him and shoved him… really hard.

"Hey! What? Why'd you do that?" He exclaimed. He had just been standing there, looking in a shop window at… Meera didn't really care. She was distracted.

"Okay, so Santa said that we can do the ball thing, and use as much mistletoe as we want, and tomorrow is Christmas, and I need to buy presents for everybody, and I don't know what to get because I've only know you guys for, like… not very long!" Meera exclaimed, in a much better mood than normal. Christmas just always excited her and made her hyper… abnormally hyper.

"Whoa… calm down. I thought you hated me?" Riku asked, always confused with Meera. She really needed to just make up her mind.

"I never said I hate you! Even if I do, I wouldn't say it! But I don't think I do, I just don't like you for extensive reasons that I'm not willing to disclose right now and-"

"You ARE a vampire, aren't you?" Riku asked, suddenly, remembering one of his theories. Meera stopped talking and raised an eyebrow. "And you hate me because my blood smells bad! See? You even have fangs!"

"Uh… hate to break it to you, but these are only here because Christmas Town is connected to Halloween Town… Notice the funny hair, too? Besides, you have fangs too! Anyway, AS I was saying, I need you to help me go shopping for Sora and Kairi and Donald and Goofy to get them stuff!" Meera exclaimed.

"Why are you so… hyper?" Riku asked, in shock. Meera's hyper-activeness seemed to fade then, and she frowned.

"It's almost Christmas! I ALWAYS get hyper around Christmas! I got a SCAR for being hyper around Christmas! It just happens!"

"Alright, alright… wait a sec. You're not gonna get ME a present? I'm hurt!" He said, placing a hand on his chest.

"Shut up, Riku. I'm gonna get you one too, whether I want to or not, and I can't have YOU help me pick a present for YOU, now can I?" Meera asked. "Now come on!"

"Come WHERE?" Riku asked. Meera immediately calmed down… and realized she was being extremely bi-polar.

"Good question. If you were the present Sora wanted for Christmas, then where would YOU be?" Meera asked, trying to stop herself from getting hyper again.

"Uhm… well… I'm really not sure what him and Kairi want," Riku said. Meera made a funny expression on her face and then pulled Riku inside the store they were standing in front of.

"Does Kairi like stuffed animals? Actually, you were probably looking for presents too, weren't you? This is convenient, I'll help you too, I guess," Meera said. She dragged Riku around the whole store, asking him if Kairi would like this or that.

'Okay… mental note… Meera is insane around Christmas. Who knows why, but she IS. She clearly doesn't hate me right now…' Riku thought while being pulled around.

"Can I help you two with anything?" A shop keeper asked. Meera dropped Riku's arm and turned around.

"Of course! You see, me and him are trying to find presents for our friend, Kairi, and we just don't know what to get her!" Meera exclaimed. The shop keeper, Paul, looked around the store for a moment and then ran off to a corner, coming back with a large box.

"Feel free to browse, I'm sure you'll find something in here," Paul told them, laying down the box in front of them. They opened it and found a large assortment of stuff. There were adorable teddy bears, beautiful necklaces, T-shirts, candy, wrapping paper, smaller boxes, more jewelry, a mini-keyblade, a large, pink, crystal heart, and a portable TV. Meera smiled and ran up to the shop keeper.

"Can I buy the whole box?" She asked. The shop keeper's eyes widened and he told her the price. She had just enough munny, and she was sure that Sora and Kairi would love things from there. She bought and forced Riku to help carry it back to wherever he was staying.(As far as he knew, Sora wasn't there, and Meera knew Kairi was where she was staying, so they decided on Riku's place.)

"Alright, Riku, go away," Meera said. He tilted his a head a little in confusion.

"Huh? What for?" Riku asked. Meera rolled her eyes.

"Because, you doofus, one of these is probably yours, and I don't want you to know which one! So go… do something else for a while!" Meera explained. Riku groaned and left, and Meera plopped down, re-opening the box.

"Let's see… I know what to give Sora," Meera muttered, pulling out a chain from the box, and the mini-keyblade. She connected the mini-keyblade to the chain, wondering how Sora's keyblade would look if he attached it. She put it into one of the small boxes and pulled out dark blue wrapping paper, wrapped it, took a black marker(don't ask where it came from, I don't know!)and wrote 'SORA' on it, and below that, 'Merry Christmas! From Meera'.

"Sora's done… hmm… what to give Kairi…" she rummaged through the box for a bit, noticing one of the necklaces was beautiful. It had a silver chain and, at the bottom, light purple beads making odd designs came down and then there was a light blue, almost silver, snowflake that sparkled. 'I think I wanna give THAT to myself…'

She thought for a bit more and pulled out the crystal heart, and thought for a moment on how she could personalize it for Kairi. Then she remembered that, at some point, someone had told her that Kairi was a princess of heart. So, she took a very sharp, pointy thing and engraved, around the edge, 'Gholvimm uk Tiehw'… and then she stopped, staring at what she wrote…

"It says Princess of Heart… but… that's the same language as before… oh well, it still works I guess," Meera muttered to herself before pulling out a medium sized(the heart is pretty big), sparkling, white bag with black handles, put the heart in, surrounded by tissue paper, and wrote 'To Kairi, From Meera' on the tag. She put it over by Sora's.

"Now then… what on EARTH do I give Riku?" She asked herself out loud. She pulled out the candy and decided she'd give him that… but candy was a very good present, and even though she didn't like him, it was Christmas, and everyone(except maybe Zopyris)deserved a present.

She rummaged through the box… and found nothing else that screamed 'GIVE ME TO RIKU!' at all…

"Shit! This sucks! I try and be nice and then I can't find anything but candy… oooh, I'm gonna kick him SO hard one day…" Meera muttered, standing up and leaving the building, looking around everywhere for something that looked like… Riku.

She found nothing and eventually gave up and walked slowly back to where Riku and Sora were staying. Sora wasn't back yet, and it didn't look as though Riku was either. Everything was in the same place as before. Meera picked up the box and Sora and Kairi's presents and left, carrying them back to where she was staying, being sure Kairi didn't see.

'I know what I could give him… I just don't think I'm ready… maybe when it's Christmas in all the other worlds… I'll tell him,' Meera thought. 'For now… he just gets a bunch of candy!'

Meera sat down and pulled out one last bag and shoved in all the candy she could find. She even gave him one of the T-shirts… and, while rummaging, noticed somethings were missing.

For one, one of the teddy bears was missing… no, two of them were. And two of the necklaces, and the TV… oh, no, she found one of the missing teddy bears. So, one bear, two necklaces, and the TV were all gone. Including the necklace she wanted to give herself.

"Aww… I should probably tell Sora and Riku that they had a robber in their place… this sucks, it matched my dress and everything!" Meera exclaimed. She sighed and summoned her keyblade, pulling all of the mistletoe off, and then dismissing the keyblade. She ran around, trying to find Riku, which she finally did, and he was holding three kind of large boxes that were wrapped in pretty paper. Meera smiled and slowly walked up to him.

"Hey Riku, I just wanted to let you know you should probably come and help me with getting the area for the ball thing ready," Meera told him, making him jump and drop the boxes. Meera picked one up and handed it to him, laughing. "Sorry, I just couldn't resist."

'Has she… ever smiled in front of me before? OR laughed? Wow… she looks kind of cute when… no, Riku, don't even think about it. No. No. Stop,' Riku thought, in shock for a moment, but snapped back into reality when Meera was moving her hand around in front of his face saying, "Hello? Anyone in there? I can't decorate a huge room on my own ya know!"

"Oh! What? Sorry…" Riku said, picking up the other two boxes and taking the one Meera was holding out for him. "Yeah, I'll help, just let me take these back to my place first. I'll meet you there."

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"Ugh, he's so slow…" Meera muttered, playing with the mistletoe. She had tried to put some up, but she couldn't reach the doorways, so she decided to wait for Riku. There was, conveniently, already a tree, but it needed to be decorated. And Meera wanted to contact some people she knew… like everyone from Radiant Garden. She even planned on inviting Sephiroth.(This is because I like him, so don't even ask…)

"I'm here!" Riku exclaimed, running through the door and stopping, staring at the tree. "Did you do that? Or was it already here?"

"It was already here… ANYWAY, here you go, go put it in doorways and hang it under that really big light," Meera told him, handing him all of the mistletoe. "I'm too short." Riku nodded and the two spent most of the rest of the night decorating and contacting people from other worlds. They convinced Jack, Elizabeth, and Will to come from Port Royal. Almost all of Halloween Town and Christmas Town was coming. Beast and Belle were coming as well, including everyone else from Beast's Castle. Meera tried to find some way to contact Axel, but failed, so he wasn't coming, as far as she knew. Everyone from Radiant Garden was coming, and the REAL King Mickey, Queen Minnie, and Daisy Duck were all coming.

The overly large room was finally decorated, and Riku and Meera sent out gummi ships to every world that had people coming from it, other than Disney Castle. When they were finally done, they smiled and shook hands.

"Nice work!" Meera said, surprising Riku AND herself by her behavior all day… and night.(Get your heads out of the gutter, you know what I mean…)"Now, I advise you and me both go get some sleep, since WE have a big party to host tomorrow!" Riku nodded, smiled again, and left, still mentally kicking himself for thinking she looked cute…

Once he was gone, Meera placed all of her presents under the tree and then left, a small smile still on her face…

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A/N: Yeah, if I put the ball in this one, too, like I was planning… it would be WAY too long… way, way, way too long… so, I'll probably update soon! TTFN!

Alyssa R.T.