We arrived at Mama Odi's house. Mama lives in a boat in a tree in the Bayou. Say that ten times fast! :D

Tiana and Naveen told Mama Odi about their problem. She seemed to act all crazy, but I kind of picked up on the fact that she was dancing around answering the question for a bit. Then she asked what they needed. They repeated the question and Mama Odi fed them some fortune cookie stuff.

I was having a staring contest with a jar of eyeballs when I felt someone tap my shoulder. I turned around and looked down at Mama Odi.

"There's a darkness that brings you here dearies." She said, looking at the four of us. "Y'all know what you need?"

I could think of a few things… "Um, no thank you." I replied with a smile.

Mama Odi cocked an eyebrow at me then smiled. "I see. Well, perhaps I could give y'all a little somethin' somethin'. To help y'all on yo little quest."

"Really?" I asked excitedly. Mama Odi walked to the other side of the boat house and stood over a bathtub filled with soup. She took her club like thing and stirred it around.

"Y'all got any questions for the gumbo, dearies?" she asked.

I stood next to Mama Odi and stared down at the gumbo. Then I looked at Sora. He stood next to me. "How about a way to defeat the heartless and the Nobodies once and for all." He said.

Mama Odi hummed and stirred the gumbo. It started to glow a bright orange color. She kept on stirring until a picture formed in the middle of it. It was no longer glowing, but turned to this dark blue screen, like we were watching TV.

"Hmm… this is different." Mama Odi muttered, rubbing her chin thoughtfully.

I crouched down next to her, staring into the tub. "What do you mean? What is it?"

"Hush." She replied. I sighed and we all watched in silence.

Black smoke seemed to swirl around, like droplets of ink in a glass of water, until the whole thing was completely black. Then, in the center, a blinding white light appeared in the shape of a keyhole. A silhouette appeared in the middle of the light, of two people standing before it. Black smoke seemed to be leaking off of one of them.

That uneasy feeling came back to me. I didn't want to watch anymore, but I couldn't look away…

Then the two people stood back to back, and then a whole bunch of other silhouettes appeared from the darkness and swarmed them, blocking out all of the light completely.

Nothing but darkness again.

"What?" I asked in disbelief. I looked at Mama Odi for answers.

"Hmm… that is confusin'." She said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"What do you mean?" Sora asked. He seemed a little irritated. I was too, but Sora seemed down right upset. "You said you would help us! What the hell was that?"

I winced when his voice rose a bit at the end. It didn't seem like Sora swore a whole lot. Plus, I felt really bad about an old blind lady being yelled at. It's just something that you don't do.

"Now, now, boy. All I can tell ye is this." Mama Odi said. She sat down in her chair and looked down at all of us. "You need darkness and light to find the light within the darkness. Only then will you achieve your goal."

Sora growled. "But I already did that how many times already!" then he furiously stomped off and out of the boat house.

I sighed as I watched him go. I looked back at Mama Odi. "I'm sorry…"

"It's alright, dearie." Mama Odi smiled. "That boy has been threw plenty of troubles. It's up to you to help him. You are chosen for it."

My eyes narrowed as I thought about it. "Yeah…"

Even though I didn't completely understand everything yet, I knew she was right. So I decided to follow Sora. I excused myself while Naveen and Tiana kept talking with Mama Odi and ran after him.

I was slowly crawling down the ladder when I heard Sora angrily grumbling words not that far ahead of me. I sighed, doubting going after him, but I was already doing it so I might as well.

"Hey!" I called after him, jumping down the last five feet. The sun had started to come up not that long ago. I was a little surprised to see that it was already morning.

Sora looked over his shoulder at me and huffed angrily, running his fingers through his spiky hair. "I'm sorry." He growled.

I walked up to him. "Don't be sorry. I can't really understand how you're feeling, because I'm not the one that's had to pull the heartless plug over and over and they just keep coming back. I can guess that it's really frustrating and scary."

Sora looked at me with his big glue eyes. They glistened with a look that was almost like helplessness. He blinked rapidly and turned away, bringing his hands to his eyes and rubbing them to catch unfallen tears.

"To tell you the truth…" Sora said, looking at me again. "I'm terrified. Every time something like this happens it gets worse and worse. What if it's too much for me this time? What if I can't do it?"

I closed the gap between us and touched him arm. "It's ok, Sora. You have all of your friends here with you." I smiled hopefully at him.

He managed to laugh slightly and my smile grew. "I know. Thanks Janine."

We heard the old door creak open and Donald and Goofy walked out with Naveen and Tiana in front of them. We all got the info we came for and now apparently we have to head 'er down to New Orleans so Naveen can make kissy kissy with some princess chick. Should be interesting.

The whole this should be interesting thing that I said earlier. More or less true. Louise had this grand idea that we would stow away on a Mardi Gras boat. The fact that he was a big ass, scary mofo of an alligator didn't cross his mind at all. No worries.

I climbed over the guard railing of the boat along with everybody else. Louise made a big crash noise as he flopped down, and Donald and Goofy did pretty much the same thing. I laughed as I watched them fumble all over each other for a bit, scrambling to get up, but just wound up tripping over each other some more.

The sound of jazz music made Louise get up and start to dance around a little. Then the sound of footsteps made all of us jump.

"Hunters with guns?" Louise asked.

"Hide you retard!" I cried in a hushed tone.

Louise tried to scramble into this tube like thing, I don't know what it was for, but his butt got stuck. I face palmed and sighed as he tried to make himself look like a box. Some dudes in animal costumes rounded the corner and saw him. They thought he was a guy in costume for crying out loud! Then they made him follow them when he played his trumpet for them.

"Hey duck, dog, are you comin' or what?" the guy in a lion costume asked.

"Uh…" Donald and Goofy mumbled. They looked up at me and Sora. I motioned with my hand for them to go with them.

"We can't miss this! Louise finally gets to play with the big boys!" Ray exclaimed happily.

"Are you guys coming?" Tiana asked.

"I think we need to look around first." Sora replied.

"Yeah, we'll catch up with you." I agreed.

"Naveen?" Tiana asked.

"I'll catch up with you later." Naveen said with a small smile.

I shook my head. Why is love so complicated? Then I took off, Sora followed close behind.

Me and Sora searched every inch if this boat and found absolutely nothing. It was getting dark and I was starving! When was the last time I ate? I don't even remember! Do you not realise how many levels of wrong that is?

"I'm hungry. " I cried, leaning against the railing.

"Really?" Sora asked.

"What? You're not?" I asked in disbelief. "But you're a boy!"

Sora shrugged. "So?"

I growled and started walking. That kitchen had to be somewhere, but I wouldn't be allowed to just waltz in and help myself. There must be a window I can crawl through… I thought. So I started to sneak around, peaking through windows. I assumed Mission Impossible mode, making a gun with my hands and humming the theme song.

"What are you doing?" Sora asked, walking casually behind me.

"Shhhhhh!" I hushed, crouched as low as possible. Then I did a half-assed barrel roll and bumped into a wall. "ow."

I stood and looked up. "Hazah!" I pointed to the very topmost post of the boat. "Maybe up there!" I declared. I ran up to the second floor of the boat, Sora in tow behind me once again, and I started to climb.

"Janine!" Sora called.

"Shush! They'll hear you!" I whispered back, already halfway up.

"Geeeze." Sora complained as he started to climb after me.

I made it to the top and peeked over the edge, balancing with my tippy toes on the railing. I gasped and ducked my head after I saw Naveen and Tiana sitting at a makeshift dining table. There was a rose and champagne bottle and a lit candle putting a soft yellow glow over everything.

"OMG!" I whispered excitedly.

"What?" Sora asked, appearing by my side.

"Oh!" I cried, pushing his head down. "Be quiet you oaf!"

"Whaaaat?" Sora asked again, whispering this time. I pointed at Tiana and Naveen. We fell into complete silence as we watched.

Naveen and Tiana talked for a little bit over a plate of minced fruit. Then I saw Naveen reach for a walnut shell. I gasped, knowing what it was for.

"He's gonna ask her to marry him!" I squealed, jumping up and down on my toes.

"Maybe we should leave." Sora suggested, tugging on my arm a bit.

"Psh! Yeah right. I wanna watch." I huffed. Sora groaned and we looked back. I stifled a giggle when I saw Naveen covered in fruit, fumbling over his words and scrambling. He was just about to say the words when Tiana had a total ADD moment and hopped off to look at a building.

"I can't hear them!" I complained. Tiana leaned against Naveen. Their backs were to us so we couldn't see what was happening. "Not fair!"

"Deporting to New Orleans!" some guy shouted. Then Naveen got up and left Tiana there by herself.

"That jerk!" I cried, throwing my hands up.

"He was so close!" Sora whined.

"I know right!"

I hopped back down to the floor after Sora and we went to find everybody.