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I felt extremely stiff when I finally woke up. I groaned and stretched and flipped over onto my stomach in the bed.

Bed? I opened my eyes and propped myself up on my elbows. I was in a small room. The only things inside were a nightstand and a bed and wardrobe. There was also a window next to my bed. I pulled off the thin blanket and sat in front of the window. Everything outside was moving past us super-fast, and it all looked like… well, outer space pretty much. Except there were no stars.

I decided to get up and figure out what was going on. I walked into what I guess was the control room.

"Hello?" I called, peering inside.

"Hi!"

"Howdy doo!"

I looked down at my feet and saw the two little chipmunks jumping up and down in excitement. "Aww!" I cooed. I crouched down and picked one of them up in my cupped hands. "Hey!"

"I'm Chip! That's Dale!" the little guy pointed to the other one on the floor. I looked at the one with the bug nose and bucked teeth. I squealed and picked him up too.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Janine." I smiled widely.

"We know." Chip squeaked simply. Then he hopped out of my hands and ran over to a place where there were a bunch of little buttons just small enough for their little bodies to work around.

Dale sat down in my palm. "You've been asleep for two days, you know."

"Really?" I asked. "Wow." I set the little cutie pie down and ran my fingers through my hair. Ewe. Yeah it's definitely been a few days since my last shower. I stood up and decided I would look for a bathroom.

Lord, if there isn't a bathroom in this place I'm gonna rage.

I found one and greedily stepped under the running, steaming water. It felt so completely amazing to get all of that grime off my skin. I would have normally been in there for at least an hour, but I got out quickly because you know how you tend to think about every possible thing when you're in the shower? Yeah, well there was a whole lot to think about and most of it I didn't want to think about.

I was reluctant to get into my dirty clothes. Then I was just amazed to find it clean and wrinkly free on the counter next to the sink. Guess it cleans itself… shweeet.

I re-entered the main lobby of the ship and found Goofy and Donald sitting in their seats, which were facing a giant screen that was like a TV or something. They were talking amongst themselves until they heard me come in. When they spotted my they jumped from their seats and bowed to me respectfully.

I giggled and waved to them. What perfect gents these two are. I guess that comes from living in a castle.

"Hayuck! Good mornin' Janine. Gawrsh, I thought you'd never wake up." Goofy chuckled.

I sighed and sat in that spot next to the window again. "Where's Sora?"

"He's still asleep." Donald said.

A groan came from the hallway and I saw Sora stumble in, rubbing his left eye sleepily. Awe, so cute!

"Speak of the devil!" I laughed. He looked at me in a little half pout and grumbled his way to his seat next to mine. I watched him carefully, kind of staring.

He noticed this and cocked an eyebrow at me. "What?"

"Do you use hair gel, Sora?" I asked, cocking my head to the side.

"What's hair gel?" he asked.

My eyes widened a bit. "So… you make your own hair gel…"

"Uhh…"

"Eww! Just…eww!" I squealed. Then I burst out laughing. It took him a minute before he got it and started to laugh and he pushed my shoulder.

"Hey! Look you guys!" Chip called from his little control box. I watched him skitter across the floor and push a button. The big screen flashed and a digital map appeared. You could see a mini version of the ship moving along a dotted line that drew from one dot to another dot, which was surrounded by a bunch of other dots. I guessed the dot we were moving away from was Earth. It seemed so far away from everything else.

"What world is that?" Sora asked, pointing to the blinking dot the Gummy Ship was closing in on.

"We can't say for sure. Guess you'll haveta find out when ya get there." Dale answered. "In fact. I'd get ready t' leave right now."

"Awesome! Let's go Janine." Sora cheered, offering me his hand. I let him pull me up and he led us to a small chamber.

"What are we doing?" I asked, nervously getting into the small room with everyone.

"We're gonna get beamed down." Sora replied. I had no idea what to say to that.

"Ready!" Chip called from his position, holding his little paw over a button. "Three, two, one-"

"Energize!" I shouted at the last minute with a grin. Light flashed, blinding me and I felt like I was floating for a few seconds.

I opened my eyes when I felt myself fall to the ground. I was on my knees, looking frantically around. Then I looked over myself to make sure I was all there, and I wasn't morphed with one of the others. I saw that movie about the dude in the teleporting machine with the fly and frankly that was a concern for me at the moment.

"Uh, Janine…" Sora said.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"Let go." He said. I looked at him and noticed I was holding onto his arm for dear life. I let go and stood up.

"So, where are we?" I asked.

All around us were thick trees and vines and swamps. We were standing on a rickety old dock made of rotting floor boards that felt like they were going to break under our combined weight. I looked up at Sora for an answer, but clearly he had no idea where we were too.

"Well, all we gotta do is look around for heartless and find the keyhole, right?" Goofy asked, stepping off of the dock and towards these bushes.

"Yeah. Let's try and find some answers too. But our top priority is to protect the worlds from the heartless." Sora said.

"The King said there were these Nobody guys too." I added.

Sora frowned and clenched his fists in frustration. "Yeah…"

We walked- more like waded- in the muck of the swamp. It was so gross that the shower I had earlier seemed just pointless. The swamp seemed endless and bugs were everywhere!

"Ahhh I can't take it anymore!" I squealed. This caused a bunch of bugs to fly off in a huge cloud around us and I screamed. "I want out of this now!"

"Shh! Look!" Sora pointed off to the distance.

We watched as two frogs hopped around like crazy towards us. They were screaming and looked scared.

Wait. Screaming frogs?

"Run!" One shouted. As he did three ugly looking heartless that looked like some kind of algae creatures emerged from the swamp.

"I can't run! I'm a frog!" the girl frog shouted.

"Then hop!" he called back.

"I'm going crazy." I muttered as I watched them.

"Let's help them out!" Sora said as he summoned his keyblade. I did the same and we attacked the heartless. In no time we finished them off.

"Woo." I huffed. I was more disgusted than exhausted. I flicked some algae off my arm and regrouped with Sora, Donald and Goofy.

"Thank you ever so much. We are in your debt." The male frog said. He stood up on his two back feet and bowed.

"No probs." I shrugged.

"I am Naveen, prince of Maladonia. And this is the waitress, Tiana." He said.

"I'm Sora. This is Janine, Donald and Goofy." Sora introduced.

"Why do you guys act like people?" I asked.

"Prince Nutter Head here talked to a Shadow Man and got himself turned into a frog. He made me kiss him and since I'm not a princess I turned into a frog too." The girl frog explained.

"You, uh, wouldn't happen to be a princess now… would you?" Naveen gestured to me, wiggling his non-existent eyebrows and puckering his lips.

"Hehe no." I replied. Ew. Just…ew.

"Are you sure? Just one kiss." Naveen coaxed, hopping towards m with his slimy lips puckered out even more.

"She doesn't want to kiss you." Sora replied, sounded rather irritated I might add.

"Yeah… don't think I'd risk it anyway. Sorry." I smirked.

"Anyway." The girl frog put in. "We're on our way to see Mama Odi about our little… problem." She shot a glare at Naveen as she said the word problem. "She's a shaman that can turn us back to normal."

"Hey. We'll help you out if you'd like. Wouldn't want to run into anymore heartless on the way there." Goofy chuckled.

"Well we've sort of got some protection already…" Tiana said.

"eeAAHHH!"

"What the hell was that!" I squealed. Sora summoned his keyblade. I did too… after I hid behind him.

"Louis." The two frogs answered.

We followed the frogs through the bushes, whacking at the prickle bushes that came up to my thigh, but the frogs could pass under easily. I was getting ancy thinking something like a heartless or snake was going to grab at my feet.

"Ow! Easy!" someone whined.

We walked around a thick cluster of trees. I couldn't hold in the scream that escaped my lips when a big ass gator came into view. There was a little firefly hovering over the alligator, holding a thorny seed like thing that came from the bushes surrounding us.

"Who's this now?" the firefly asked. I recognized the accent as Cajun. I went to Mardi Gras before with my Uncle Dave. Good times man… good times.

"Uh, this is, uh…" Naveen began, but couldn't finish.

"Sora." Sora said with a smile.

"Donald!" Donald said.

"Goofy." Goofy said with a wave.

Oh great. You managed to introduce all of us before now I gotta do it myself? Lazy ass. Haha jkjk. "Hey, I'm Janine." I said politely.

"Good to meet ch'all!" the firefly flashed a toothless grin. "My name's Raymond, but you can call me Ray. This here gator is Louis."

Louis just whimpered in his current situation, which happened to be prickly seeds covering almost every inch of his bum. I covered my mouth to keep from laughing at him.

"Oh now Cher, I know we gotta get to Mama Odi lickity split, but this particular extractification (not a real word btw :P) is gonna take a while, yeah." The firefly said.

"Aw. Poor Louis." Tiana cooed, patting Louis' nose.

"You know what would make me feel better?" Louis said. Then he screamed from having another prickly being pulled out. He listed off a bunch of food I couldn't even repeat after just hearing him say it. Sounded fancy. Delicious even. That's when I realised how hungry I was. No American goes more than a couple hours without food. Now that I think about it I've gone THREE DAYS without food.

"How about some swamp gumbo?" Tiana suggested, starting to pull leaves off of a pumpkin.

Funny enough, pumpkins actually grow out here. Heh, who knew?

So it was decided, after everybody was filled in on our mission as much as possible, they would make dinner and we would patrol the area for heartless.

We split up to make up time, but I didn't go far. As I walked along I kept the fireplace that had been started in my peripherals as I marched through the muck. It really smelled bad too. I kept on swatting away mosquitoes constantly.

"Grrr. I want to be back in the desert." I mumbled. I was never actually in the desert, but Vegas was surrounded by desert. The awesome part about that was that it was too hot for mosquitoes!

A flash of movement caught my eye and I whipped around just in time to block a jump attack from an ugly Heartless that looked like it was made out of vines and moss. More that looked like it surrounded me. I held my keyblade out, but its viney fingers wrapped around it. I wrestled with it for a minute and just when I felt like I was going to crumble under this thing's weight, something dark and smokey engulfed it and made it disappear.

The sudden release of tension made the muscles in my legs cave and I fell to the ground. I looked up for my rescuer, but there was nobody in sight.

"Hello!" I called. Nobody replied. I looked all around. There was nothing. Not even any heartless. They were all gone now. I dismissed my keyblade and stood up, brushing off the leaves that clung to my bottom. "Uh… thank you!" I shouted, hoping they could hear me. That was weird…

I was starting to get used to the idea that animals could talk now. Donald being a duck and Goofy being a…dog. Apparently Sora and I were the only people here that could talk to them because we are from a separate world. He explained this, and other things, as we all talked around the fire that was keeping the pumpkin soup warm.

Pumpkin soup is good. I had seconds and thirds, ignoring the fact that it was made by a frog.

Ray told us all about his love, Evangeline. I awed at him like the total girl that I am. Seeing someone in love is literally the best thing in the world, besides actually being in love, which I never have. Don't know if I ever will now, given the circumstances...

Ray was telling jokes now and Tiana and Naveen were unconsciously flirting with each other. I inwardly awed at them. Jeez I gotta stop awing :/

Later that night I listened as Sora told me the story of his adventures before now. "So… the Nobodies had this big and nasty organization you say?" I said to Sora.

"Yup. Nasty. We thought we got them all, but I guess we were wrong." Sora said with a shrug.

I hugged my knees to my chest and leaned up against a rotten log. Sora was doing the same next to me, but with one leg bent up and the other straightened out.

I sighed and looked up at the sky. "It sounds like you've had a pretty rough past couple of years. I'm sorry."

"It's not so bad." Sora said as he tucked his hands behind his head and leaned back to look at the sky too. "Once this is over and done with, I just hope that I can go back to my home and stay there."

"Right…" I replied. I frowned a bit. Where will I go after this? I have no home now… I shook my head slightly and paid attention to the sky. "Hey, look. The evening star." I raised my hand and pointed to it.

"Oh!" Ray gasped breathlessly. I looked at him and saw him being all smiles and having googly eyes. "There she is! The sweetest firefly in all creation."

"Evangeline?" Tiana asked, hopping onto a Lilly pad and looking around for her.

Louis gobbled up the rest of his soup and said through his mouthfuls. "I wanna meet this girl. Where she at?"

"Why, she is glowin right there in front of y'all." Ray exclaimed. He flew up to the sky and stared up at the star shining above us.

"That star?" I asked in a hushed tone so Ray couldn't hear.

Ray then started to sing. "Look how she lights up the sky. Me Belle Evangeline."

"Oh wow…" I muttered, smiling widely. Too cute, but at the same time tragic. You could clearly see the obstacle here. Still, I listened as Ray sang a song to the star.

Ray continued to sing and I resisted the urge to tear up as he kept going. Then Tiana and Naveen started to dance along to the music. Louis started to play his trumpet and setting a whole romantic setting.

Me and Sora exchanged glances.

Umm, can you say awkward!

I was SO relieved when Sora just smiled and looked back at Tiana and Naveen. That would have been weird.

"Janine…" Sora said. I turned my head slightly and met his blue eyes. "Uh… if there's…you know…" he was acting nervous.

"Yeah?" I replied nervously, whipping my head back to face him. Where is this going?

"If the worst happens for your world, you can come back with me to Destiny Island."

"What?" I asked, having all my attention on him now.

"Yeah. I mean, Riku and Kairi, and the others would like you. Plus, you know, you're my friend and, well, what else could I do. You're already helping me so much now." Sora rambled.

I giggled and touched his shoulder. "Thanks, Sora."

Anyways, the two frogs danced until the song ended. They stopped spinning around and stared into each other's eyes, their faces getting closer and closer.

"Oh!" I whispered/ shouted excitedly.

Naveen looked totally into it, but Tiana seemed to have a sudden awakening of some kind and hopped away from Naveen.

"Aw! Come one!" I complained, crossing my arms over my chest. Bogus! Did anyone else see the fireworks! I would have gone for it! Ahem…

We all watched in utter disappointment as Tiana hopped off. None of us were as disappointed as Naveen looked. He sighed sadly and looked down at his feet. His eyes went from sad and slowly they grew wide as he stared down. Then he fell to the ground and was swept off by some big shadow.

"Tiana!" he cried.

Tiana looked back In horror and started to chase after him. "Naveen!" she called.

"Heartless!" Donald shot up from where he had dozed off.

"Not sure!" Sora said. We all got up to chase after Naveen.

"They're gettin away!" Goofy hollered.

We tried helplessly to catch up to him, but Naveen seemed to get further and further away.

Poof!

Bolts of orange light shot up and the shadows disintegrated. We all looked up and a small old lady appeared. She giggled. "Not bad for a 197 year old blind lady."

"Go, Gramma!" I cheered.

She chuckled again and then growled. "Now which of you naughty dearies messed with the Shadow man?"

WEW! This was a long chapter xD please review~~ =3